Organiser+Jacqui+Sharp

Jacqui Sharp is an educational consultant who has worked in the field of computers in education since 1987 in Auckland, New Zealand. I am a trained primary teacher with 26 years experience teaching children and 11 years working with teachers. From 1996 she has been involved in the Professional Development of Teachers in Technology and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In 1996 she was contracted by Manukau Education Centre for 2 years and since 1998 she has run her own consultancy business. Since 1998 Jacqui has been working with teachers and children in the classroom. She has contracts with several schools where she works one on one with the teachers in the integration of ICT into the curriculum. Jacqui analyses where the teachers are 'at' in the [|**levels of integration of ICT**] and then works with them to advance their own skill level and their level of integration in the classroom.  **[|Occasionally she goes back into the classroom]** for a period of time with several computers and technology tools. Using the classroom's existing programme Jacqui demonstrates how ICT can be integrated throughout the whole curriculum. Teachers from all over Auckland are invited to observe Jacqui at work in the classroom. As well as working with teachers in classrooms she holds Teacher Only Days and Staff meetings in schools. Professional Development is also provided through a variety of [|**courses held all over New Zealand**] [|.] When she is not working with teachers and children she is developing and writing **[| resources]** that are available at several of the teacher resource centres throughout New Zealand or from this  ** [| website] **