My whole life I'm busy learning and part of educational communities. When I was 5 years old I went to kindergarten. After that I completed primary and secondary education. When I was 16 I wanted to become an actress. I loved to go to the theatre and see the plays of Edward Albee, Samuel Becket and other new play writers (I'm talking of the 1960's:-)I was too young to attend drama school, so my parents advised me to go to teacher school and there I discovered that education has a lot in common with drama and theatre. So I became a teacher in primary education and I learned a lot about teaching and training. But I still liked to study, so I started a parttime study MO-A Dutch language. I got my 3 children and became a language teacher in secondary education. I learned a lot about teenagers and adolescents, about dyslexia and mentoring, about teaching grammar, spelling, writing, literature and poetry. I loved to work with teenagers and teaching languages. But I still liked to study, so I started a parttime study educational sciences. I liked it very much, although I had a tough job and a bunch of teenagers at home.After I finished my study I started as an educationalist at the SROV, the Rotterdam School of Midwives. I stayed there for 5 years and learned a lot on curriculum design and program building, on teacher training and assessment. I was an educational adviser at Hogeschool Leiden (Leiden University of Applied Sciences) till september 2018. I was an adviser on educational matters, i.e. developing competence based learning and assessing, guiding teachers in developing programs and tests, (re) thinking strategies and policy. Teacher training and professionalizing is one of my specialties as well as assessment, student centered learning.Now I'm retired but still my whole life is about learning and education and I love it!