About Me

Director of e-learning
Epsom Girls Grammar School

Bio
Claire Amos resides in Auckland, New Zealand. She is married and has two young daughters. She is the Director of e-learning at
Epsom Girls Grammar School. She is also the facilitator of the ICTs in English community on English Online. In 2010 Claire held the position of Auckland Secondary English Facilitator at Team Solutions at the University of Auckland. Claire has taught English for 13 years in a range of secondary schools, most recently holding the position of Head of English Faculty at Auckland Girl’s Grammar School. She has worked at a national level in assessment and curriculum in English as a part of the writing team for the redevelopment of the NCEA standards and as a marker for NCEA external standards. In 2009 Claire was a Ministry of Education e-fellow for which she undertook a study of how ICTs can be used to support literacy in and beyond the English classroom.
My Digital Footprint
ClaireAmosNZ on Twitter
The Virtual Classroom - my teaching blog
Teaching and elearning - my professional development/elearning blog
ICTs in English - Forum Blog I contribute to as ICTs in English forum facilitator
Auckland Secondary English - wiki developed whilst being an English Facilitator
The Virtual Classroom - teaching resources wiki
101 English Blogs - my project, encouraging 101 English teachers to blog.