Cheryl Johnston
Kingston Learning College
When students join the Kickstart class, Cheryl Johnston, a Kingston Learning College (KLC) teacher, gets to know their strengths and learning styles through surveys and questions, including Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, to enable her to tailor-make activities to suit each individual.
Then the answers are turned into exciting hands-on lessons by Cheryl who inspires colleagues with the way she engages students.
Cheryl, who has been teaching for 24 years, has been nominated for an Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award.
A foundation teacher at Kimberley College, where she worked for 13 years, Cheryl is now helping students aged from 15 to 50-something reengage, or continue, with their schooling in KLC’s flexible learning environment.
Throughout her teaching career she has worked on extending students’ capacities.
As well as leading three tours to Japan, she mentored and coached public speaking entrants and school teams in debating competitions, Tournament of Minds and Optiminds.
She has served as a co-ordinator of Mathematics, German and Japanese in a junior school and of Multi-strand science, Science21 and Prevocational Mathematics in the senior school.
At KLC she provides professional development on innovative teaching techniques.
KLC is based at Kingston State College, where deputy principal Leanne Theodos says Cheryl is a unique, untiring and highly skilled teacher with a gentle and caring manner which draws students into a “magical work space”.
“As a result of Cheryl’s engaging units 100 per cent of the students in the inaugural Kickstart class improved on their previous mathematics and English results,” she says.
“She has evolved an outstanding portfolio which continually involves accessing, researching and creating the most useful and engaging strategies to complement her established and successful daily teaching and learning practice.
“Cheryl’s dedication to the teaching profession is consistently imaginative, insightful and inspiring to all.”
Congratulations Cheryl on your nomination.
Then the answers are turned into exciting hands-on lessons by Cheryl who inspires colleagues with the way she engages students.
Cheryl, who has been teaching for 24 years, has been nominated for an Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award.
A foundation teacher at Kimberley College, where she worked for 13 years, Cheryl is now helping students aged from 15 to 50-something reengage, or continue, with their schooling in KLC’s flexible learning environment.
Throughout her teaching career she has worked on extending students’ capacities.
As well as leading three tours to Japan, she mentored and coached public speaking entrants and school teams in debating competitions, Tournament of Minds and Optiminds.
She has served as a co-ordinator of Mathematics, German and Japanese in a junior school and of Multi-strand science, Science21 and Prevocational Mathematics in the senior school.
At KLC she provides professional development on innovative teaching techniques.
KLC is based at Kingston State College, where deputy principal Leanne Theodos says Cheryl is a unique, untiring and highly skilled teacher with a gentle and caring manner which draws students into a “magical work space”.
“As a result of Cheryl’s engaging units 100 per cent of the students in the inaugural Kickstart class improved on their previous mathematics and English results,” she says.
“She has evolved an outstanding portfolio which continually involves accessing, researching and creating the most useful and engaging strategies to complement her established and successful daily teaching and learning practice.
“Cheryl’s dedication to the teaching profession is consistently imaginative, insightful and inspiring to all.”
Congratulations Cheryl on your nomination.