Sheryl Rogers
Senior Manager – Digital Professional Learning & Development, TELLAL Institute of Teacher Learning and Leadership for all
Sheryl has 20 experience in education and holds a bachelor’s degree in education and a diploma of teaching from her home country , New Zealand. She has taught both primary and secondary students using technology as a key component of student centred learning and enquiry. She left the classroom to work for Apple Inc. as a professional Development manager and worked extensively throughout schools in New Zealand to provide Professional Learning opportunities using digital tools and pedagogies that support learning.
Sheryl moved to the UAE in 2009 where she worked for GEMS School Improvement Partnership as part of the ADEC reform project and continued to train teachers in the UAE government school system to integrate new learning and technologies into their new curriculum. Sheryl also hold a TESOL qualification and was able to work with local teachers top attain the required IELTS 5.5. standard for english language proficiency.
In 2012 Sheryl moved into the GEMS corporate office. Sheryl is the Senior Manager of digital Professional Learning and Development, based in GEMS Corporate office. She Works with GEMS schools worldwide to support the advent of mobile technologies and their deployment in the classroom and beyond, She facilitates professional development opportunities for teachers to support the delivery of a blended learning model and a digital curriculum from Pre K through to G12
She consults with Schools to develop Strategic plans and CPD frameworks based on current research and learning theory providing a GEMS wide vision and strategy for digital learning. Sheryl spent spent the last 2 years working as a part of school review teams, after developing a set of digital standards as part of a school improvement framework. Visiting schools to observe and evidence the development of digital pedagogy as expressed in a dynamic , personalised digital “learnflow”
As part of her work in the Professional Development team, Sheryl is working on E-Learning instructional design and build of online courses developed for Teacher Development and Leadership Development programmes, as well as school and corporate compliance training. This involved the selection, procurement and development of a custom LMS to deliver the courses and work with subject experts to redesign some Face to Face PD courses. Her interest is in working in the field of E-Learning instructional design and adult training to further enhance her professional skill set. Sheryl is currently studying for her Master’s in Technology and Learning Design. As part of her Master’s research, Sheryl is involved in piloting the use of avatar based teaching simulations to support teacher professional learning. This project involves research into skill acquisition and retention through the use of virtual rehearsal in a classroom simulator to apply and practice specific teaching strategies. A coaching model is applied whilst in the simulator. This cutting edge technology can lead to transformational teacher practice and comprehensive self reflection of one’s own pedagogical skill set. Alongside the simulations, sit other instructional coaching digital tools such as SWIVL classroom recording robots and bug-in-ear coaching kits which support the migration of simulator skill adoption into the real classroom. Her work with the Professional Learning team is to train key school staff to develop their ability to deliver their own professional learning as part of a self improving school model.
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