Pamela Munro-Smith

Experience

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  Department of Education and Training, Victoria

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2001

  Teacher and Leader

  Reading Recovery TeacherClassroom TeacherWhole school Science Leader

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  International Baccalaureate School

  Jan 2001 - Apr 2012

  Educational Leader

  * Classroom Teacher* Junior sub-school Leader* Member of School's Leadership Team & School Council* Leader of whole school teams * Leader of: Education Committee, whole school transition, curriculum development, programs for gifted and talented students, analysis of school data; review and development of the school's strategic and implementation plans, and the introduction and embedding of the International Baccalaureate Program. * Webmaster: building and maintaining school website, developing educational content Show less

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  Department of Education and Training, Victoria

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2009

  Developing student's skills in dealing with bullying, nutrition and general wellbeing.Providing activities tailored to enhance student's wellbeing and successfully implementing strategies to improve absence data. Student absence data moved from low to similar in that one year. Writing policies including wellbeing, behaviour management etc. Member of Leadership Team. Supporting teachers and schools on the Mornington Peninsula to cater for the needs of Gifted and Talented students.

  • Primary Wellbeing Officer

    Apr 2008 - Jan 2009

  • Peninsula Region Gifted and Talented Coordinator

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2009
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  Department of Education and Training, Victoria

  Apr 2012 - Jan 2014

  Educational Leader

  * Classroom Teacher* Junior School Leader* Member of School's Leadership Team* Leader of: school’s Numeracy Professional Learning Team (PLT), action research into teaching and learning, implementation of teaching programs, analysis of school data; review and development of the school's strategic and implementation plans. I led the development of a progression of Numeracy learning P-8. These are used by teachers to track student progress, to plan the next steps in each student's learning and to effectively differentiate teaching and learning in numeracy across the school. Show less

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  Australian Council for Educational Research

  Jan 2014 - now

  Director of Project: Making a Difference in the Kingdom of Lesotho.ACER and its staff are supporting a village in Lesotho where one third of the children are orphans: funding the education of 48 vulnerable children, building a school and filling it with furniture and books, funding the purchase of teaching materials, blankets, shoes and groceries as needed. ACER has shipped 9 tons of high quality ACER Action Learning Literacy and Numeracy books, to support the teaching of reading and curriculum content in primary schools. Show less • Project leadership• Leading professional development for teachers & Principals: throughout Australia, Myanmar, Lesotho • Working with the Department of Education & Training on various projects to improve teaching and learning in Victorian schools• Workshops to build capacity of Ministry staff: Afghanistan, Lesotho, Laos• Victorian graduating teacher assessment• Managing development of Australia’s NAPLAN (numeracy)• Designing and developing national assessment, training, trialling, analysing data: India, Pakistan, Laos, Indonesia, African countries, UK, Scotland, Afghanistan Show less

  • Project Director

    Jun 2016 - now

  • Research Fellow

    Jan 2014 - now
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  10th International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries

  Sept 2017 - Sept 2017

  Invited speaker (Plenary)
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  Rea Thusa Public Benevolent Institution: www.reathusa.org.au

  Nov 2017 - now

  Founder, President, Project Director

  Rea Thusa is a registered charity (ABN 36558788040) dedicated to improving the lives of children in Lesotho through education. We build schools; provide school resources & PD for teachers; sponsor orphans to compete high school; and provide blankets, food & clothing.

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  36th Annual Conference of Association for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA) 2018

  Aug 2018 - Aug 2018

  Invited speaker (Plenary)

  The themes for the conference: * Assessment in the digital era: A new chapter* Bridging the gap between curriculum, teaching, assessment and the world of work* Reflections on the implementation of school based assessment* Advancing creative, vocational and technical skills through assessment* Re-thinking assessment of learners with special needs* The impact of assessment innovations on resources