Obento Supreme Teacher Toolkit

Naoko Nishikawa has extensive teaching experience in primary and secondary classrooms at government and independent Victorian schools (Bayview College, St Leonard's College, Brighton and Haileybury College). She co-wrote and validated the Australian Curriculum: F-10 Japanese (2015) and has developed a number of digital resources for Japanese. She was the President of JLTAV. Naoko is currently teaching at Gardenvale Primary School. Jacqueline has worked as a practicing teacher at both the primary and secondary level. She currently works at Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne, where she has worked as the Coordinator of Japanese, and also as Junior School Learning Support and English as an Additional Language Teacher. Prior to this she was Head of LOTE and Japanese at Beaconhills College in Pakenham and Head of Japanese at St Paul's Anglican Grammar School in Warragul. Jacqueline has presented on behalf of the Japanese Language Teachers' Association of Victoria at the 2001 Japan Foundation Symposium on Japanese Language networks in Tokyo. Kyoko is an experienced Japanese teacher. Over more than two decades, she has taught the Japanese language to primary and secondary students, including mature age students. Kyoko has taught at Santa Sabina College, Sydney, NSW and has extensive experience as Senior Marker, Supervisor of Marking and as a judge of HSC NSW. She has served as a committee member and presenter for the Japanese Teachers' Association, JTAN, has completed a Masters in Education, and has qualifications in NAAFTI Japanese translation and interpreting. Ayako has worked extensively as an English and Japanese teacher in both Japan and Australia. She has held leadership positions, including Head of LOTE at Brighton Secondary College and Bentleigh Secondary College, and Head of Japanese at Firbank Grammar. She has also taught at Mordialloc Secondary College, La Garenne International School (Switzerland) and Melbourne High School. Ayako is currently teaching at Hakuba International School (Japan). She is an experienced VCE examiner and has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Japanese Interpreting and Translation at Monash University. Jean has contributed more than 40 years in Japanese language education (K-12 and tertiary) in NSW. Prior to her retirement, she was a teacher in primary and secondary schools, an HSC Japanese marker and exam writer and a lecturer of Japanese teaching methodology at a number of tertiary institutions including the Japan Foundation and the Sydney University of Technology. Jean was the Coordinator of the Nihongo Tanken Centre, a unique language learning facility which provides a Japanese K-12 immersion program. Anne has taught Japanese in secondary schools in Victoria for two decades, and held a range of leadership positions in schools. She joined the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority in 2003 working in the Languages Curriculum area. She was the National Co-ordinator of the Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages, and has been involved in national languages curriculum and student course placement policy review. Since then she has worked with ACARA on the development of an Asia-aware national curriculum as Australian Curriculum Strategy Manager at the Asia Education Foundation, The University of Melbourne. She is now following her interests in painting and botanical art, and Languages teaching and learning.