Head of School (Cambridge KS-2)
Vine International School
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :13 years, 4 أشهر
• Collaborate with Co-ordinator of Schools, Head of School, Heads of Cambridge Lower Primary (KS-1), Nursery and Crèche Departments respectively, for the overall success of the institution
• Report directly to the Head of School on KS-2 progress, challenges and ways forwards from time to time
• Work with a professional team of KS-2 class and subjects instructors to improve pupils’ learning outcomes
• Develop, fine-tune, update (as appropriate), monitor and ensure strict adherence to subjects curricula and school’s operational subject time-table on a daily basis
• Check, update and make necessary inputs to teachers’ notes of lessons to conform to current global practices and standards
• Observe subject and class instructors during lesson sessions from time to time for effective teaching/learning outcomes
• Monitor and ensure strict adherence of teachers to pupils’ homework schedules, submissions and markings
• Plan and execute excursions and educational visits for pupils to places of interest on a sectional basis
• Check and mark class and subjects teachers’ diaries and pupils’ registers on a weekly basis
• Sign and publish pupils’ results as and at when due
• Answer to parents’ and guardians’ needs regarding academic complaints and clarifications
• Hold periodic and regular meetings with KS-2 staffs, as to better pupils’ academic achievements
• Prepare, present and/or enroll pupils for Cambridge Primary Checkpoint-6, and other external/secondary entrance examinations and competitions with the aim of getting outstanding results
• Liaise with other management staffs for effective results and collaboration towards the growth of the institution
• Encourage and maintain pupils’ and staffs’ discipline at all times during school operational hours
• Develop, adapt, adopt and discuss effective and contemporary teaching skills and methods/strategies with KS-2 teaching team as to ultimately improve teachers’ expertise and experience, and pupils’ learning outcomes
• Engage teachers in in-house and out of school local and international teacher professional development programmes from time to time, as to keep them abreast of, and in line with current challenges and developments of the teaching profession
• Directed and monitored routine maintenance (200 hourly) of diesel electric power generation plant
• Directed and monitored fuel loading of diesel electric generator tank by manual and electric pumping
• Determined daily start and end of day fuel gauge levels from calibrated analog volume metre
• Determined daily start and end of day generator hour metre readings from analog hour metre
• Managed electric power consumption using energy per time and fuel power consumption logs/charts
• Prepared technical report (using mathematical expectation to analyze power supply data over a period of 60 days) for the Director to find average daily PHED power consumption expectation level as a benchmark for checking against overcharged PHED bills; thus saving the institution over N300, 000 per annum
• Taught and supervised 10+ staff members on improving their teaching efforts, methods and skills throughout key stages 3 - 4, so that the least able learners are able to achieve reasonable learning outcomes
• Pioneer contributor to the inception and usage of the first e-school and e-learning platforms of the institution, during the September, 2014 Ebola Crisis in Nigeria
• Wrote monthly and termly feedback reports to parents and stewards on students’ and wards’ academic and moral successes, weaknesses and ways forwards
• Taught Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry to students of diverse nationalities and of graded academic ability levels, in preparation for Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge Secondary Checkpoint examinations
• Taught and supervised six students on ICT; including Introduction to Computer Appreciation, Microsoft Office suite, the Internet and electronic mailing, and Information Storage and Transfer Devices, including practical sessions on how to master the use of the programmes
• Donated and installed new Computer Laboratory for the school, with stand-by electric power generator and six installed desktop computers, installed with basic programmes and applications
• Team player in engineering drafting, development, marking and cutting out operations for simple machine parts such as local cassava grinder feed hoppers, machine casings
• Team player in pulley groove casting and belt-drive assembling
*Designed a vee-belt drive that will transmit 500 watts of mechanical power for local grating machine
* Team player in engineering projects involving basic joining operations such as oxyacetylene and electric-arc welding,
bolting and nuting of machine parts
• Cumulative Grade Point Average : 4.113/5.0 • Expertise in the use of MATLAB, PDMS, AutoCAD, MathCAD and Micro-Soft Office suite, the Internet (web surfing) and electronic mailing • Proven ability to do large numerical calculations involving strength of materials, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, refrigeration and air-conditioning, fluid mechanics and drag, system dynamics, mechanical statics, mechanical vibrations and damping, design of machine elements, engineering mathematics, pure mathematics, real mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and interpret their results in practical terms • Good experience of technical report writing and basic machine assembling • Proven ability to undertake engineering laboratory operations involving sheet-metal cutting, bending and forming, electric-arc and oxyacetylene welding, bolting and nuting, tapping and dieing of internal and external screw threads, hand drilling • Live experience and sound practical knowledge of thermal power generation, transmission and distribution from Ogorode Thermal Power Generation Station, Delta State, Nigeria • Live experience and sound practical knowledge of the generation (from animal dung), distribution and storage of natural gas (methane) from Songhai Gas Plant, Delta State, Nigeria • Sound practical and theoretical knowledge of simple electrical wiring, and the installation and repairs of minor faults in basic electrical appliances and devices, such as simple control switches, ceiling fans, pressing irons, light bulbs, wall sockets and switches • Sound practical and theoretical knowledge of solar power generation and installation of solar panels • Project Highlights: “Design, Development, Fabrication and Testing of a Carrot Slicing Machine”: Worked as team-project leader in a group of four students, project supervisor and departmental project coordinator to design, develop, fabricate and test a carrot slicing machine. Determined that the machine is able to slice and/or grate soft and/or leafy vegetables with a mechanical efficiency of 86.01%. Presented findings to the engineering dean and faculty, fellow students, and members of the university alumni, and project considered one of the bests in that academic year Construction Materials: Independently researched and wrote reports (90+ pages each) on mild-steel as basic construction material