Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Recent professional development
Academic References
Other professional training and responsibilities
Personal Information
Spouse
Hobbies and Interests
Timeline
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James Pinkard

James Pinkard

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Summary

  • An experienced, motivated and progressive team player
  • Worked effectively with a diversity of teachers and students in a number of International School settings
  • Specialising in Inquiry, with a student-centred learning classroom
  • Deep pedagogical knowledge and avid professional reader
  • Interest in effective mathematical teaching and learning, the Mathematical Mindset and best practice

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

GRADE FOUR CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

ABA OMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, OMAN
08.2021 - Current
  • EcoRangers Student Club Facilitator
  • Member of School Sustainability Committee
  • Cricket and football After School Club Coach

KINDERGARTEN & GRADE ONE CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

TASHKENT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, UZBEKISTAN
08.2018 - 07.2021
  • Mathematics Coordinator and Teacher Team Leaders Member
  • After School Cricket Coach
  • CAS Supervisor and Gr5 Exhibition Mentor

GRADE ONE & TWO CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

PREM TINSULANONDA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, THAILAND
08.2014 - 07.2018
  • Member - Accreditation Steering Committee
  • Facilitator - Community Projects (Baan Dek Foundation)
  • Football and Cricket Coach, Tournament Referee
  • Evening and Weekend Boarding Supervision.

GRADE FIVE CLASSROOM TEACHER

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BERNE, SWITZERLAND
08.2012 - 07.2014
  • Establishment of PYP Exhibition Retreat
  • Reconstruction of Unit Planners


GRADE ONE CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM
08.2008 - 07.2011
  • Mathematics Coordinator and Leadership Team Member
  • After School Percussion and Story Telling Club
  • Football coach

GRADE ONE CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

SUZHOU SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, CHINA
08.2006 - 07.2008
  • Accreditation Committee Chair
  • After School Music Club - International Drumming.

Education

BACHELOR OF ARTS -

University of Tasmania
Tasmania, AUSTRALIA

GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF EDUCATION K-10 -

University of Tasmania
Tasmania, AUSTRALIA
11.1993

Skills

  • Promoting Authentic Inquiry
  • Modelling Growth Mindset
  • Planning Collaboratively
  • Effective Differentiation
  • Technology Integration
  • Connecting with Nature
  • Sustainability and Environment focused
  • Flexible and Open-minded

Recent professional development

  • Making Learning Visible (online course), 09/2019
  • Messy Maths, 01/2019
  • PYP - Evidencing the Learning, 04/2019
  • Success for ELL's and ALL's, 09/2018

Academic References

  • MR. CRAIG WILLIAMSON, Head of School, ABA Oman International School, Oman, cwilliamson@abaoman.org, +968 7151 8846
  • MS. SAMANTHA COOK, Elementary School Principal, ABA Oman International School, Oman, scook@abaoman.org, +968 9387 5163
  • MS. JAN HUMPLEBY, Primay School Principal, Copenhagen International School, Denmark, elemprincipal@tashschool.org, +998 90 808 3309
  • MR. BILL KRALOVEC, Director, Tashkent International School, Uzbekistan, director@tashschool.org, +998 90 185 8410



Other professional training and responsibilities

  • IBPYP Workshop -The Role of the Coordinator, September 2017
  • How to Learn Mathematics for Teachers, Stanford University Online Course, Jo Boaler, 2017
  • Concept-based Mathematics, Jennifer Chang, August 2017
  • Growth Mindsets - From Not Yet to What Next?, James Anderson, September 2016
  • Member, Accreditation Steering Committee, 2016-2017
  • In-school Workshop Leader, Growth Mindset, 2016
  • Educare - Safeguarding Young People, 2016
  • Parent Workshop Leader, Literacy, Mathematics in the Junior School, 2016, 2017
  • IBPYP Workshop - Teaching and Learning, 2016
  • IBPYP - The Exhibition, 2013
  • Kath Murdoch - The Inquiry Cycle, 2008-2011

Personal Information

  • Child Name: Thomas Henri Pinkard-Bourget (DOB 24/07/2007) - Grade 12
  • Child Name: Amélie Clara Pinkard-Bourget (DOB 13/10/2011) - Grade 7
  • Marital Status: Married

Spouse

Julie Bertrand-Bourget - IB Chemistry/General Science

Hobbies and Interests

  • Sport - cycling, squash, golf, cricket, tennis, football
  • Music - teaching, orchestral playing, musicals, beginner guitar
  • Travel and Culture
  • Reading
  • Intermediate French

Timeline

GRADE FOUR CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

ABA OMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, OMAN
08.2021 - Current

KINDERGARTEN & GRADE ONE CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

TASHKENT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, UZBEKISTAN
08.2018 - 07.2021

GRADE ONE & TWO CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

PREM TINSULANONDA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, THAILAND
08.2014 - 07.2018

GRADE FIVE CLASSROOM TEACHER

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BERNE, SWITZERLAND
08.2012 - 07.2014

GRADE ONE CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM
08.2008 - 07.2011

GRADE ONE CLASSROOM TEACHER (PYP)

SUZHOU SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, CHINA
08.2006 - 07.2008

BACHELOR OF ARTS -

University of Tasmania

GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF EDUCATION K-10 -

University of Tasmania

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