Nathaele Dawes
Loreto College, Coorparoo
She’s passionate about delivering exciting lessons and has been short-listed for a prestigious language teaching award.
Loreto College, Coorparoo, teacher and native French speaker Nathaele Dawes collaborates with other teachers in her professional networks to devise engaging lessons.
The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority French panellist for the Gold Coast is also an active member of the Modern Language Teachers Association of Queensland, and last year was nominated by a student for the Patji-Dawes Award.
Nathaele, who often uses games in the classroom to help students deconstruct language, credits her two teenage sons with helping to make her lessons more engaging.
“My sons will tell me about the latest show or gadget they enjoyed and I can use that with my classes, turning a sleep class into a buzzing debate,” she says.
Loreto College Principal Cheryl Hamilton says Nathaele is an excellent beginning teacher who brings a high degree of professionalism to her work.
Nathaele has been nominated for a Queensland College of Teachers Excellence in Beginning to Teach Award.
“She is an enthusiastic, creative and engaging educator who leads and motivates students and colleagues,” Cheryl says.
“She brings the gift of her wider experiences to the classroom and the staffroom and adds greatly to the professional learning culture of the school.”
Nathaele, who is known to her colleagues as Nat, also played a key role in helping two Loreto College students win the Queensland Premiers Anzac Prize competition, which saw a group of 70 high school students visit the First World War battlefields in France and Gallipoli in April 2015.
Congratulations Nathaele on your nomination.
Loreto College, Coorparoo, teacher and native French speaker Nathaele Dawes collaborates with other teachers in her professional networks to devise engaging lessons.
The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority French panellist for the Gold Coast is also an active member of the Modern Language Teachers Association of Queensland, and last year was nominated by a student for the Patji-Dawes Award.
Nathaele, who often uses games in the classroom to help students deconstruct language, credits her two teenage sons with helping to make her lessons more engaging.
“My sons will tell me about the latest show or gadget they enjoyed and I can use that with my classes, turning a sleep class into a buzzing debate,” she says.
Loreto College Principal Cheryl Hamilton says Nathaele is an excellent beginning teacher who brings a high degree of professionalism to her work.
Nathaele has been nominated for a Queensland College of Teachers Excellence in Beginning to Teach Award.
“She is an enthusiastic, creative and engaging educator who leads and motivates students and colleagues,” Cheryl says.
“She brings the gift of her wider experiences to the classroom and the staffroom and adds greatly to the professional learning culture of the school.”
Nathaele, who is known to her colleagues as Nat, also played a key role in helping two Loreto College students win the Queensland Premiers Anzac Prize competition, which saw a group of 70 high school students visit the First World War battlefields in France and Gallipoli in April 2015.
Congratulations Nathaele on your nomination.