Hello! Thanks for stopping by here to learn more about me. 

I bring with me over two decades of experience in the education, training, and learning and development space across various sectors including non-profit organizations, academic institutions and the private sector. Over the years, the skills-sets I have acquired and honed include:

•	Curriculum design and development
•	Training delivery and facilitation
•	People development (mentoring, coaching)
•	Communication skills (both written & oral)
•	Research and writing
•	Competency roadmap development
•	Strategic thinking
•	Leadership
•	Administration
•	Project management

I see myself as a well-rounded individual with an analytical mind, a critical eye for details, strong administrative abilities, commitment to excellence, effective communication skills, strong ability to work independently as well as in a team, a friendly disposition and a passion for people development. My DiSC style is CS (Conscientiousness-Steadiness). My top five CliftonStrengths are Intellection, Learner, Input, Deliberative and Connectedness. My personality type is ISTJ-T.

My passion and mission is to enable, equip and empower people to build and bring out the best in them, so that they become better people who would build better companies and a better world.

Knowing that I have only one life to live, I want it to count and matter. A quote that deeply resonates with me and informs how I live and frame my life is this:

“An awareness that our days are limited imbues them with both a steward’s sense of urgency (now rather than later) and a strategist’s sense of clarity (this rather than that).” – Tony Jones

Bernard Low

Primary School Teacher

Inquiry Teacher

Hauraki Primary School

Deputy Principal Release                                                                Jan 2014 to present
Hauraki Primary School
•	Provide release for the DP’s duties
•	Responsible for teaching Inquiry to a Year 6 class in a digital environment.

CWSA Teacher                                                                                        Oct 2008 – April 2013
Hauraki Primary School
•	Responsible for the extension maths programmes for Years 4-6
•	Teach other extension groups – science, topic & writing for Years 4-6
•	Teach competition groups for years 4-6
Successes:
-	Winners of the National Panasonic Storyboard Competition in 2012
-	Regional & National winners of the New Zealand Herald ‘Design a Front Page’ competition from 2009 to 2012.
-	Winners of the Auckland University Science Board Game Competition in 2010.

Senior Teacher                                                                                                    2000 - 2006
Wairau Intermediate School
•	Provide professional leadership to my team of teachers
•	Assessment for Learning Lead Teacher
•	Science Curriculum Leader
•	School-wide planning of Science units
•	Organisation of whole school Science Fair
•	Member of the North Harbour Science & Technology Fair Committee & judge at the Science Fair
•	Teach a composite year 7/8 class
•	Delegate work to Teacher Aides
•     Supervise and mentor Beginning Teachers

LTR Teacher (Year 8)                                                                                     1999 – Mar 2000
Greenmeadows Intermediate, Manurewa

Permanent Subject Teacher                                                                            1987 – 1997
Sparks Estate Secondary School, South Africa
Biology Year 10
History & Geography Years 8 – 10

Teacher

I am a trained primary school teacher who also teaches English to students of other languages. I have taught at high school, intermediate school and am currently teaching at primary school level. Teaching and learning is what I love.

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