My name is Jason Blaikie and I am a teacher at St Joseph's Institution, Singapore. I teach English and English Literature to Secondary One and Two students (13 and 14 year old boys). In my chosen career-vocation, I am a De La Salle Brother for some 20 years now.
One reason why I selected this course is because I wear many hats. Besides classroom teaching, I am also on the Singaporean Lasallian Foundation Board. The Board is opening a new International (IB) school in Malaysia in 2016. Part of this whole adventure would be getting the right people in for the task. Ultimately this would mean getting new teachers in who would not be familiar with the Lasallian tradition. Hence, I thought this course would be good in me beginning to understand some possible staff culture / school ethos issues that might occur in setting up a school that will cater for Primary school education right up to Pre-University students.
I hope to gain many insights of what to expect in terms of educational issues; staff and culture issues, student related issues and Governance issues. I understand that while the Australian context is obviously different, I hope to make some parallels between the finer workings in Asia and Australia.
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