Thomas Chitongo Email & Phone Number

Australia

Moved to Melbourne

Australia

Ayr, Qld 4807

• Developing and implementing ideas gained from professional activities to enhance students’ learning in the school • Facilitating effective personal and professional skills in collaborating with colleagues and relevant professionals in promoting student achievement• Promoting appropriate personal and professional relationships with teachers, parents/carers of students and with other relevant community members.• Promoting and developing skills in effective inclusive classroom practices, in evaluating and reporting students’ progress and in encouraging positive relationships with students with disability in a mainstream classroom.

Australia

Leading the inclusive education section and coordinating all activities regarding students with learning needs, including identification of students who require diagnostic tests for verification. Processing paperwork for initial and review verification for students with disability. Coordinating differentiation,accommodation, adjustments and modification processes among teachers. Supervising and staff developing teacher aids and teachers with regards to working with different students with disability.

Geelong West, Australia

• Managing the program for students with Disability (PSD)• Assisting and supporting staff to develop school curricula to meet the needs of the program for students with disabilities.• Promoting, coordinating and supporting the school’s integration programs regarding students with learning needs.• Promoting and coordinating the transition program for students with disability.• Developing curricula to meet the needs of students included in the Program for Students with Disability (PSD).• Seeking to establish partnerships with parents and business community that support the PSD.• Providing teachers with strategies to differentiate, modify and adjusting work assigned to students within the PSD.• Sourcing for resources that meet individual student needs in the areas of literacy and numeracy within the PSD.

Wedza Zimbabwe

My responsibilities included leading Chemhanza High School (enrolment 720 boarding school students), provision of purpose and direction to staff, shaping school culture and values, facilitating the development of shared school vision, formulating school goals, setting priorities and holding accountability for all students’ learning and teachers’ professionalism and wellbeing. I supervised mentored and assisted student teachers on teaching practice from Zimbabwean teachers’ colleges, for both the Zimbabwean curriculum, and the Namibian curriculum (1989-2007). From 1995 to 2007, I trained and coordinated Mathematics examiners with the Zimbabwe Examination Council.

Doctor Of Education (Edd), Special Education And Teaching, Pass

Activities and Societies: . Coordinator of Student learning advisers - La Trobe University, Equity and Diversity Unit Duties: Coordinating.

Master'S Degree, Special Education And Teaching, Pass

Activities and Societies: ResearchPracticum in a special education setting and in a mainstream setting.

Master Of Education (Med), Educational Administration Planning & Policy Studies (Eapps), 1.0 With Merit

Activities and Societies: WORKING AS SCHOOL DEPUTY HEADMASTER AT CHEMHANZA HIGH SCHOOLCOMPLETED A THESIS : “The involvement of subject.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Education, African Languages, Statistics, English, Public Administration, Pass

Activities and Societies: N/AN/A

Certificate In Education, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates, Pass

Activities and Societies: Cultural ActivitiesCollege Choir trainer and conductor