PETER AUER is a highly successful educator at the local, regional, national and international levels having specialized in in-service education for more than 25 years. For the past five years he has been working in New York City providing schools with professional development in the areas of curriculum development, pedagogy, and literacy to improve student learning outcomes. Peter assists schools with curriculum planning, mapping, unit writing and lesson planning, incorporating the workshop model, maximizing student engagement and collaboration, and promoting higher order thinking. He assists teachers with formative and summative evaluation, data collection and interpretation to facilitate differentiated instruction in order to achieve optimum student learning outcomes. Peter assists schools prepare for School Quality Reviews.
Peter began his career as a middle school and high school teacher in Victoria, Australia where he also became an examiner in History for the Victorian Universities and Schools Examination Board. He then spent more than twenty years in teacher education with Melbourne University, Hawthorn Institute of Education and Deakin University where he developed undergraduate and post-graduate courses focusing upon curriculum development and pedagogy for both pre-service and in-service education. Peter has also worked as a consultant on numerous education projects in England, Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Kuwait, Costa Rica and various countries of the Caribbean. As a consultant to the World Bank in Washington, DC for c. 7 years, he was responsible for the coordination of the Learning and Knowledge-Sharing Program of the Global Development Learning Network which developed cutting-edge programs delivered by distance education technologies.
Peter has a Masters of International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University: School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC; a Master of Arts in Education Administration, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; a Bachelor of Education from Monash University, Victoria, Australia; a Diploma of Education and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He also has a Certificate in Professional Development in Distance Education, University of Oldenburg, Germany and the University of Maryland.
A skier, tennis player, Marathon runner and photographer, Peter lives in New York City with his wife, Caroline and Jack Russell, Harry, for the benefits this city provides intellectually and culturally.
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