Employment History

2012 - Current     Teacher Aide - SEP/ILT

Department of Education - Education Queensland

Professional Resume

Skills

Personal Skills
  • Organised
  • Time-efficient
  • Reliable
  • Honest
  • Proactive problem solver
  • Empathetic
  • Ability to work with diverse students and colleagues
Academic Skills
  • 2nd year Bachelor of Education - Primary
  • Certificate III Education Support
  • Certificate IV Education Support
  • Senior First Aid
  • Asthma and Anaphylaxis 
  • CPR
  • Behaviour Management  - ECMS, MYCP
  • Students with Disabilities  - iDET Learning Place
  • PM Benchmarking 
  • Scribing for Naplan
Work Skills
  • Level 3 Teacher Aide - Students with Disabilities and Inclusive Learning
  • Implementing intervention programs in Literacy and Numeracy
  • Speech and Language programs
  • Fine and Gross Motor programs
  • Brain Gym
  • Early Childhood Perceptual Motor programs
  • Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder

About me

  • First name: Anita
  • Last name: Smyth
  • Student ID: 18766374

Profile information

I am a mature aged student who has chosen to follow a dream to make a difference in young lives.  I have excitedly ventured into the education arena, working for the past 9 years as an Education Support Aide for Students with Disabilities and Inclusive Learning.  

I am a mother to 3 amazing sons - Twins: Dominic and Gianni 15 years old and Kaelen who is 13 years old.  

I have always had an interest in learning and sharing knowledge and as a teacher, I hope to have a positive platform to support and encourage students to rise to the challenge of learning and become their best versions of themselves. 

I believe every student can succeed with the right support and engagement, I acknowledge that each student is individual and I respect and embrace diversity and all it has to offer within the classroom and learning arena.

  • Email address: 18766374@student.curtin.edu.au
  • Town: North Lakes
  • City/region: Brisbane
  • Country: Australia
  • Mobile phone: 0448955750
  • Occupation: Education Support Aide
  • Industry: Education

Acknowledgement of Country

I am committed to supporting reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian people.   In keeping with the spirit of reconciliation, I respectfully acknowledge the Gubbi Gubbi people as the traditional custodians of the land where I study and work.  I recognize that these lands have always been a place of teaching and learning.  I wish to pay respects to their Elders – past, present and emerging and acknowledge the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within the Moreton Bay region.  I acknowledge the responsibility of educators to remedy disadvantage through Indigenous education and to overcome prejudice and promote inclusiveness by educating the Australian community about the cultures, beliefs, languages and traditions of Indigenous Australian people.

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Anita Smyth's groups

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Certifications, accreditations and awards

Professional Development
  • Behaviour Management
  • Disability Standards for Education
  • Students with Disability (6 areas)
  • PM Benchmarking
  • Melinda Cassells Sounds to Letters program
  • Support a reader program
  • Scribing for Naplan
School Community representation
  • Member of school LCC
  • Member of Positive Behaviour in Learning (PBL)  Tier 1
  • United Voice representative (Teacher Aides)

Anita Smyth's friends

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Anita Smyth's wall

Michael Comino
18 March 2020 at 14:30

The submission of a year 4 biology formative and diagnostic assessment task and accompanying rubric is perfect evidence to suggest you are achieving the graduate level for AITSL standard 5.1. Your rubric demonstrates a good range of knowledge on how to assess students based on their level of understanding of content, delivery of content and use of enthusiasm and audience awareness. Additionally, you have thoroughly explained within your rationale how you have met the standard through the three specific assessment tasks, well done! If I could make one suggestion it would be that during EDP220 when I created the DDP my UC suggested we use the Rolfe reflective model when introducing an artefact to give a broad understanding behind why the specific artefact was chosen, how it relates, the quality of the artefact and how you can then improve on this standard and work towards moving above the graduate level.

Michael Comino
18 March 2020 at 14:30

Hi Anita,

 

Your DDP is great and definitely a good work in progress! I’m very impressed with the high standards of professionalism highlighted throughout and all your information is readily accessible in relation to academic and work skills, certificates and accreditations, personal attributes and professional development. This will be very important when applying for teaching jobs in the future.

If I could make any suggestions to further improve your already great DDP, I would suggest incorporating an ‘Acknowledgement of Country’ on your dashboard to acknowledge and thank the traditional landowners in both Brisbane and In WA where our campus is located. Other then that your DDP has actually provided some insights into how I might improve my DDP. For example, I really like that you have a large picture of yourself to ‘put a face to the name’. (I’m going to borrow this for my DDP!)

Anita Smyth
24 February 2020 at 15:45

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20 April 2019 at 15:49

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