Alison Shearman

About Alison Shearman

Driving change in teaching culture with Visible Learning so stakeholders articulate…

Experience

1. Associate Trainer

   Center For Teacher Effectiveness

   May 2018 — Present · US

   SCHOOL SUCCESS CONSULTANT and TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINER CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT• Trainer, providing staff development training in schools and districts to meet their unique needs;• Enabling schools to increase instructional time by up to 90%, fully engage students in their learning and improve student scores;• Modelling proven, research-based techniques to manage and reduce disciplinary challenges, slash office referrals and build teacher support and job satisfaction;• Reducing student drop-out rates;• Delivering positive and caring discipline solutions. CLASSROOM DIFFERENTIATION• Engaging the unmotivated;• Differentiating the curriculum to be relevant and meaningful to all;• Identifying and catering to different learning styles;• Building critical thinking with taxonomies that foster deep understanding and creative investigation;• Finding the ways to assist learning in ways the child learns best;• Facilitating co-operative learning and flexible grouping.

Education

• University of Technology Sydney

  Bachelor of Education (Primary), Major: Art Studies Minor: Computer Education

  1987 — 1990

• Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education

  Diploma of Teaching