Jill Hammonds
Jill Hammonds is a facilitator for CORE Achieve and Te Toi Tupu Literacy programme.
Jill has been using her extensive knowledge of professional development and ICT’s to enrich the learning experience of teachers and students for many years.
She began working for CORE Education in January 2004 as a national ICT PD facilitator providing both mentorship to the clusters and the schools within, and monitoring their progress for Ministry of Education reporting. In 2009 she added NZ Curriculum and student achievement as a component of her job, and began working in schools with senior management and teachers to raise teacher effectiveness and set direction for whole school change.
Jill combined her knowledge of effective teaching, e-Learning and change management to facilitate schools in the review, future focused visioning and development of their own school based curriculum.
In 2011, Jill has added another dimension to her work, supporting Te Toi Tupu Central North Literacy facilitators in raising student achievement through e-Learning. In this role she has both mentored teachers and modeled effective practice in classrooms.
Jill has always been a strong player in the development of online communities. She is also a regular presenter at conferences throughout New Zealand. Prior to joining CORE, Jill was facilitator for several ICT PD Clusters from 1999-2003. This followed Jill’s long career in classroom teaching from Year 0-8, and a year working for Info-Tech Education.
Jill is available to work in schools through provision of Teacher only days, mentoring senior leadership in schools, staff meetings, providing teacher workshops, 1-1 mentoring and modelling in classrooms.
Her expertise includes:
- Facilitating schools in the review, development and implementation of their local, future focused curriculum aligned to the NZ Curriculum
- Facilitating schools / teachers in the development of an inquiry approach to learning that has rigor, enables lifelong learning, is future focused, utilises a wide range of resources and expertise and develops the learner ability to take ownership and apply the skills to real life situations
- Facilitating whole school change
- Facilitating the raising of student achievement in literacy
- Development of staff capability in e-Learning to raise student achievement
- “10+ Ways of raising student achievement in literacy” – a highly interactive workshop focused on literacy strategies and utilizing the digital tools of the age. Learning @ School 2011 and repeated for 120 teachers at a Waikato Reading Association session
- “Getting Realistic about Literacy National Standards” – a 2010 Ulearn full day preconference workshop on e-Learning and literacy to meet national standards
- “Taking the Model out of Inquiry” – a focus on effective learning through inquiry – removing the constraints of a model and opening up to rigor, scaffolded processes and student reflection on practice. Learning @ School 2010 and adapted for many schools since
- “Getting Creative about Literacy National Standards” Learning @ School 2010 and CORE Breakfasts in Christchurch and Wellington. Also recorded for EDtalks
- “Juniors Can!” - a full day preconference workshop presented at Ulearn 08 for junior teachers covering all aspects of ICT use to enrich learning
- “Sometimes the Technology but Always the Thinking” – a full day preconference workshop presented at Ulearn 07 and several times since
- “Facilitating Workshops with Adult Learners” – a full day workshop at a Waikato/BoP regional meeting
- “Unpacked for Success" – Targeting Student Achievement Through ICT” – a workshop presented at Ulearn 05, Aberdeen 2005 and Top of the South 2005 Conferences
- “Get Fit for Thinking” – a workshop presented first at Te Waka Conference February 2006 on ways to regularly use thinking activities in the class programme so that students develop facility or “fitness” in thinking.
I love working alongside teachers, seeing the satisfaction they get when they succeed in using new technologies and processes to engage and enable students, and improve learning outcomes in their schools.
