Resume Mr K. de Souza

Kleberson R. R. de Souza

NAME:

PRESENT EMPLOYMENT

Name & address of employer:

Position held:

Canterbury College New Dover Road, Canterbury

From:

Section Manager Art And Design

November 2010

To:

Present

CT1 3AJ Notice required:

1 Term

Please give a brief description of your current duties & responsibilities: My key responsibilities are: 1. To assume day to day-operational responsibility for all learning, teaching and training delivered within my section; 2. To assist in the planning and operation of a portfolio provision that effectively meets the market demand for FE and Access to HE within funding and income constraints, whilst meeting the interests and learning needs of students and maintaining appropriate academic standards; 3. To assist in the increase in retention and achievement rates to build up the faculty and student success rates to levels that will place the College at forefront of colleges nationally; 4. To take responsibility for liaison with the awarding bodies for the operational management and quality assurance of the provision and associated administration, assuring an update curriculum and delivery that better suits student’s expectations and national and international entry criteria for HE. 5. Liaise with the community in developing Live Projects in order to enable employment skills through the delivery of national curriculum.

Reasons for leaving / wishing to leave:

Develop my career further into International Schools.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

Name of employer & Nature of business

Position held

Westbourne School Penarth's leading independent school for girls and boys, aged 3 - 16.

Offering the internationally recognised IB (MYP and DP) and IGCSE.

Head of ITGS CAS Coordinator (IB) IB Coordinator Support (MYP and DP)

From: To:

10/2009 10/2010

Main Duties Deliver ITGS and coordinate CAS Programme.

Support IB Coordinator (MYP and DP).

Reason for Leaving Accepting a management position in Canterbury College

Jun 2008 Sep 2009

Deliver ICT, Technology and Photography from Year 7 to 6th Form.

Creative Coordinator (Creative Partnership and Creative School) Visual Arts College bidder Develop Scheme of Work (SoW) for KS3/4 ICT and Media Coordinate BBC School Report Project

Moving to Wales to develop skills into IB and IGCSE

Assistant Teacher (trainee) ESOL

May 2007 Dec 2007

Deliver ESOL for students from 1618, and 19+

Taking on Teaching Post in Datchet

Visual Art's Teacher – CCECA (center for creative arts and education)

Jan 2000 Dec 2002

Deliver Visual Arts for Undergraduate Students.

Moving to the UK

Churchmead CofE (VA) School Secondary School, Visual Arts College GCSE and Sixth Form Priory Way, Datchet, Berkshire - UK SL3 9JQ

Teacher Creative Coordinator Bidder KS3/4 SoW Developer BBC School Report Coordinator

UNION LANGUAGE SCHOOL (now in administration) 24 Westover Road 2nd and 3rd Floors Bournemouth, Dorset UNOPAR University of Parana’s North Londrina – Parana – South Brazil

St. Paul’s School The British School of Sao Paulo International Baccalaureate Brazil

Voluntary work as supporter for Specialist Teacher of Portuguese and Visual Arts

Jan 2002 Jan 2003

Support teacher in the delivery of Visual Arts and Portuguese from IGCSE and IB DP.

Moving to the UK

Londrina Town Hall Londrina Parana Brazil

Accountant Assistant

1995 2001

Support accountant management in town hall

Starting my career in Education

Banco do Brasil Cornelio Procopio Parana Brazil

Undergraduate accounts assistant

1992 1994

Working in International Transaction for Banco do Brasil (undergraduate Programme)

Approved in a established position in Londrina’s Town Hall.

Details of any gaps in employment:

From 2003 to 2006, apart from travelling around Europe, I completed my Food and Management Course at NVQ 2 and NVQ3, and I worked as a Chef in Marriott Hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset UK and also as a Kitchen Manager in The Slug and Lettuce, a pub-restaurant also in Bournemouth Dorset UK, before taking on ESOL teaching and achieving full QTS through the University of Reading in June 2008.

Qualified teacher status?

Yes

Teacher Reference Number:

3361102

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

Level of qualification

Is the qualification completed?

MA

School/College/ University attended

From: To:

No

University of London Institute of Education London

OTTP (Overseas Trained Teacher Programme)

Yes

BA Degree (Hons) Londrina, Parana, Brazil

Secondary School

Subject area

Result

2010 Sept 2013

Media Culture and Communication.

Cultural Studies.

Digital nativesimmigrants.

Digital Literacy in the 21st Century.

TBC

University of Reading , UK

Jun 2008 Jun 2009

Full QTS (Secondary and Sixth Form)

Full QTS

Yes

UEL Londrina State University Fine Arts Degree Art Education Londrina, Parana, Brazil

1998 2002

Fine Arts and Education

1 Hons Degree

Yes

Objetivo College Cornelio Procopio Parana, Brazil

1989 1992

General Knowledge at Secondary School (equivalent to 4 Alevels (UK Naric equivalent)

100% A-C

TRAINING UNDERTAKEN:

Training Course

Organising body

Dates

Collaborative Learning

Canterbury College

26/03/2013

Health and Safety Reporting Health and Safety incidents Meeting the threat from fire Dealing with hazardous substances Avoiding violence Stress Busting!

Lifting and carrying safely Working safely with computers Getting to grips with health and safety

Canterbury College

January 2013

Dealing with hazardous substances 100 Working safely with computers 82 Stress busting 84 Getting to grips with health and safety 100 Lifting and carrying 100 Avoiding Violence 94 Meeting the treat from fire 97 Exploring Equal Opportunities & Diversity 100

Canterbury College

February 2013

All about Enrolment; Timetable procedures; About Ofsted Inspection; Summer Schools and Autumn Schools; On-line tutorials; Live Projects; Interacting with Stakeholders; How to run a Health Fair; Risk Assessment/Fire Marshalling and Fire Awareness/Manual

Canterbury College NCFE Edexcel

From November 2010 to date

Equality and Diversity briefing Safeguarding Essentials Data protection Disabled Go

Handling; Creative Festival Workshop; Managing Surveys; Finance and Accountancy: Planning your budget; Triennial reviews in Numeracy and Literacy; Lesson observations; ILP’s; The Wolf Review and Curriculum Development issues for 2011 and beyond; Value Added; Senior Management Meetings on a weekly basis since November 2010 covering Teaching and Learning, Outcomes for Learning and Leadership and Management.

UAL – University of the Arts, London Diploma and Extended Diplomas at Levels 2 and 3

UAL – University of the Arts, London

January 2013

Topics: Active Learning Assessment Effective Questioning Differentiation Target Setting Feedback Pace, stretch and challenge Promoting diversity Behaviour Management Collaborative Learning

Canterbury College

September 2012 - March 2013

DP categories 1, 2 and 3 workshops in Wellington College (Berkshire), United Kingdom

Ibicus, London

25-26-27/10/2010

DP category 3 workshop in Oxford, United Kingdom (A theoretical and practical approach to developing links between TOK and CAS)

St Clare’s, Oxford

10-11-12/02/2010

MYP and DP categories 1&2 and 3 workshops in Oxford, United Kingdom.

IBSCA

24-25-26/03/2010

Delivering IB programme (MYP/DP)

In-school training – Westbourne School

June 2010

BBC School Report Day

BBC White House, London

September 2008

OTTP - Overseas Training Teacher Programme

University of Reading

June 2008 to June 2009

HOBBIES / INTERESTS / MEMBERSHIP:

I It is always prudent to practice as you preach so, as well as managing a successful Art and Design Section in one of

the biggest FE and HE Colleges in the UK, I am a practicing artist myself. I produce digital prints, paint acrylic on canvas, and produce sculpture, exhibiting at shows across the country and internationally. My most recent exhibit was at Kensington and Chelsea Old Town Hall late last year. My artistic website is host at www.ricardosalles.co.uk.

I am interested in meditation and I practice yoga weekly. Gym is on my agenda almost daily, as well as cycling and cooking. I have a great passion for environmental travel and have been inspired artistically by the diverse flora and fauna of my homeland, the xerophytic scrub of the southern Mediterranean, the podzolic heaths of England, and the vast forests of Poland and Germany.

I have a soul for entrepreneurship as well, and am enthusiastic about start-ups. Back in Brazil I started a series of small businesses that were successful, and then I’d sell them and move on to next projects. My most successful business back in Brazil was a hotel for children, which would host children from working families or from parents that would like to go for a night or weekend away and would leave their children with us.

When coming to the UK in 2003 I successfully completed my NVQ levels 2 and 3 for Food Management, which gave me the chance to become Kitchen Manager in The Slug and Lettuce, a Pub restaurant in Bournemouth (from Laurel Pub Company business). In 10 months, the pub turn over went from £12,000 a week to around £27,000 occupying the second position in kitchen profits, with the prime position belonging to the branch in Leicester Square, London.

One of the highlights of my career was to have the chance to visit Runshaw College, where Sir Bernard O’Connell was the Principal and the college had become nationally and internationally renowned for its outstanding standards of quality, which was a breath of fresh air for my aspirations and still inspires me in my commitment to generate new ideas and actions to improve the quality, quantity, diversity and performance of my leadership and management as well as outstanding teaching.

I place great importance on establishing links and networks, and I am registered with the LCIF (Low Carbon Innovation Fund – East England); ATL (The Education Union); Yacapaca (quizzes); IfL (Institute for Learning); Oxford and Cambridge Club (London); SEC (South East Communications); Venture Giant (Bringing Entrepreneurs and Investors Together); the TES; NEN (The Education Network – NGfL and SEGfL) and ecorner (Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner). I am a member of “globalengage” from Ibo and also a member in “thestudentroom” where I get updates about the IB and the latest resources in education for the delivery in my section, mainly when I organise group tutorials across the board, using current themes suggested by IB, TES and “the studentroom”. I am a lead member of the Committee for Equality and Diversity within Canterbury College, working towards equal opportunities whatever the student’s background or phenotype. I am also member of several Focus Groups within the College.

COMPUTER / SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

I am highly computer literate, both in Mac and Windows and also in Social Networks and Learning Software and Mind Tools.

Mac: Macromedia Package Windows: Office Package, Macromedia Package.

Prezi / Google Sketchup / Google+

PERSONAL STATEMENT

I am a highly qualified and experienced professional in the education sector. With strong leadership and management qualities and with substantial knowledge of new technologies for Education in a global society, I can demonstrate that I am able to lead students to build on high achievements and progression; and staff to create an energetic culture of improvement.

I hold a 1st class honours degree and have full-qualified teacher status. As a professional, acutely aware of my place in a changing world, I pay particular attention to my own continued professional development, embracing new technologies and new theories in educational and pedagogical research. I am currently in the final few months of my MA in Media, Culture and Communication at the Institute of Education, University of London, where I research the meanings and processes of being literate in the 21st century with specific reference to the concept of digital natives/immigrants. With my skills, knowledge, experience, energy and enthusiasm I feel I am a strong candidate for the Head of Secondary position.

In 2002, I completed my Degree in Fine Arts and Education and my thesis about “William Blake and New Technologies”, which discussed the impact of new technologies on Arts and Education at the close of the 20th Century.

After undertaking teaching work in Brazil, including voluntary work at St Paul’s School, a renowned British School in São Paulo, Brazil, I headed to the UK to improve my language abilities and further develop my career. I have a thirst for knowledge when it comes to information and making it useful and accessible to others.

When I first started teaching in the United Kingdom at Churchmead CofE School in Datchet, Berkshire, I delivered Design and Technology and ICT to students from Year 7 and Art and Design and Media Studies to Sixth Form. In my position in Churchmead I was put in charge of my school’s engagement with the BBC School Report scheme and its bid for Creative Partnership funding for resources to encourage the use of digital and communicative media in conjunction with other local schools in the borough.

I was successful in securing funding to launch a school-wide podcast/radio station, which I accomplished during my last months at the school. The Radio Station Project had a strong cross-curricular anchor, encouraging students to improve their performance in all subjects across the school. The majority of the students taking part in the project emerged with a record of success and improvement not only in ICT and Media, but also in English, due to writing and presenting being integral components of the project and through developing activities for our Radio Station Project. We also noted an improvement in students’ behaviour while performance levels were raised to outstanding. As a result of the success of both projects, and my role in leading the school’s "Creative Partnership", I was put in charge of a further bid for ‘Change School’ funding. As a result of my bid application, we were awarded a further £15,000 to develop Media and Communications projects with our students.

The success of these projects contributed significantly to the school achieving Specialist Visual Arts College status. The bid sticks in my mind as a clear example of the ability of an underachieving school to achieve more, proving that despite the odds fortunes can be turned around with initiative and teamwork, passion and energy. This was one of the first highlights of my career in the UK, as it happened in a very challenging school and it is one of my proudest achievements. It is my belief that raising expectations of learners and staff will always result in higher levels of achievement as they learn to expect more from themselves.

At Westbourne School, Penarth, Wales, I had the chance to deliver ITGS within an IB School. I also took an active part in IB Coordination at the school as a result of my knowledge of the IB, IGCSE and links with the University of Cambridge. We had a focused and highly productive partnership through CAS with the Penarth Pavilion Pier Project, a very prestigious project that we delivered also through TOK. Part of this activity involved me taking responsibility for writing an Educational Plan for making a bid for lottery funding which was successful. I also had the opportunity to take part in focus groups discussing the IB syllabus through IB OCC, taking part in forums and in-house workshops organised by IB Leaders.

In November 2011, I took a management post at Canterbury College as Section Manager for Art and Design, where I currently work. It is a large department comprising 27 staff and nearly 500 students. We run 16 BTEC courses and 8 Alevel courses, as well as Functional Skills English, Maths and ICT. I have responsibility for timetabling all courses and staffing accordingly. We run a very complex integrated series of programmes providing students with a full diagnostic experience of the comprehensive range of Art and Design activities including Painting and Drawing, Sculpture, Ceramics, Graphic Design and Digital Media, all aspects of Printmaking including Etching, Silkscreen, Intaglio and Photo imaging, Fashion and Textiles and Photography.

Clearly this type of operation requires a high level of organisational skills to ensure an effective learning experience for all.

I am privileged to manage the most successful department at the College, achieving the highest overall success rate in 2011/12 – 91% - with a substantial number of high grades. We prioritise teaching and learning, outcomes for learners and leadership and management, and are very proactive in researching new ideas and innovations. In my section, exceptionally, we run an Entrepreneurship Skills course for all Level 3 students (NCFE enterprise skills level 3), which is proving to be successful among all students.

During our full Ofsted inspection following the new College Inspection Framework, at Canterbury College during February 2102, we gained recognition for the high quality of our Course Planning and Development in Art and Design.

Ofsted considered all our BTECs Outstanding including our Outcomes for Learners, Live Projects, Logbook Assessments, Feedback, and Target Setting. Leadership and Management were also judged as Outstanding.

Through the College Information System we collect data that is useful and purposeful for planning, target setting and raising standards. The use of the Virtual Learning Environment and online Personal Learning Plan are comprehensive in our Section, and students and staff make full use of the advantages of the technology available through iMac rooms, mac book pro laptops, drawing tablets, interactive whiteboards, printers, digital cameras, scanners, and mixed media studios.

I have ensured that the development of the use of current technology in Art and Design is underpinned by a comprehensive understanding of the classical formal elements and practices of Fine Art. Apart from making use of the latest technologies in education and access to update current software, all learners develop their skills in printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, painting, and drawing and other traditions as detailed previously. Following the last Course Review, student satisfaction reached 98% and one of the highlights was revealed as the use of new technologies and traditional media in the Section. We keep close links with parents/guardians throughout the year and this has a positive impact on student wellbeing and performance.

All my staff work towards a common objective: student success and progression. We have a high progression rate from Level 3 to university, with 90% of our students entering UK universities last year. As a section manager I closely monitor the process for applications through UCAS with my level 3 students and with my tutors. We have a lasting tradition of

entering the best universities in the UK, including UAL (University of the Arts, London); Oxford; Rochester; London College of Communication, University College London, Bournemouth University, Southampton University, Bath Spa University, among others. All my staff are professional artists with up-to-date experience of industry and students are given a direct contact with real world practitioners and taught through living experience from the Creative Industries. We have established strong links with Canterbury local community; local, national and international businesses and institutions, resulting in positive impact on the students’ progress, achievement and artwork.

In return for the opportunity to apply my skills in my workplace, I can assure commitment to transforming opportunities for people from all walks of life and backgrounds through the development of their potential. I have proven ability and motivation to interact with students, staff, parents and the wider community to foster a culture of learning, enterprise, improvement and inclusion; high levels of energy, enthusiasm and perseverance; and the ability to keep things in perspective. I will also bring my faithful commitment to continuing professional development of colleagues and self; my adaptability to changing circumstances and new ideas and a belief that every person matters. As a Latin American, I keep a sense of humour and proportion whilst working under pressure and meeting deadlines. I display a genuine love of learning and care for students, as I have always done. This is in my genes, as my mother was a primary school teacher for 23 years and my sister is a Headmistress at present in a very successful secondary school in Brazil.

I am able to engage with students of all abilities and relate to colleagues of different backgrounds. I am also able to demonstrate passion, drive, a no-excuses attitude and an absolute belief in the potential of students. I demonstrate strong attention to detail, an ability to get things done, a reliable and hardworking nature, meticulous planning skills, with an ability to achieve deadlines, prioritise and delegate. I also demonstrate good judgment, decision-making, integrity, moral purpose and a calm and confident manner. I enjoy developing quality relationships of respect, high trust, positive regard, empowerment, 'winning hearts and minds' and creating capacity and energy in others. I will promote and value a culture of high achievement, with the ability to provide a ‘wow’ factor, a passion for teaching and learning and a clear focus on the achievement of young people as I have been doing throughout my career in Education since the day I started in this profession back in Brazil.

I believe in people and I believe in education. Coming from a lowly family in Brazil and looking at my position today I am sure I have a story to tell, knowledge to share, passion to inspire and a belief that with a good character and education we can build a clear and stable path to a better world. Due to my diverse background, I am fully committed with the values of an international education. I am a strong leader, sensitive to those I work with and the needs of the students and the community. I have clear vision and expectations and can put this into practice always striving for excellence.

This is aided by my flexibility and pragmatism. With my experience in the upper echelons of education theory and practice, including the IB Programme (MYP/DP), IGCSE, UK National Curriculum and UCAS application system, I believe I can serve my school’s community in continued success, tradition and implementation of a vision for the future.