Amanda Hogan

Professional Summary

Amanda is a skilled leader of computing education and technology integration in education, dedicated to improving educational outcomes for students and teachers across school environments at local, state and national levels. She accomplishes this through a compassionate and motivating teaching style, direct leadership in the teaching community, input into the development of state curricula, and through producing high-quality, publicly available teaching resources. Amanda is a well-known thought leader in the education community, frequently presenting at both education and technology conferences.

Skill Overview

Enthusiastic and experienced teacher, learning designer, teacher trainer, event organiser and public speaker
Mentor of team members, peers and junior colleagues to assist others to reach personal goals
Passionate about education research and applying research-proven teaching approaches in the classroom
Skilled data analyst and programmer in Microsoft Excel, VBA, Python, SQL, Pandas and web technologies.
Successful teacher of complex CS concepts to learners from year 3 to a tertiary level, including developing strategies to captivate disengaged learners
Motivated life-long learner, particularly in the fields of education, computer science and learning science

Work Experience (Professional)

Computing Teacher and Assistant Head of Department, SACS2020—current

Wrote software to take MYP portfolio marking from excel into a series of formatted marking sheets including highlighting and comments for Years 7-10 using Python and web technology saving time and effort.
Worked closely with the learning support team to deliver differentiated learning to diverse learners.
Developed MYP programs for Years 7, 8, 9, 10, and innovative programs for HSC Software Design and Development, including those that passed IBO inspection in 2021/22
Consistently evaluated at Expert and Excellent levels.
Mentored a colleague through the Experienced Teacher process.
Developed a Maker Space program that facilitates students learning in a series of guided term-based projects

Computer Education Specialist, Australian Computing Academy2017—2019

Analyse Australian Curriculum and evaluate and map existing resources to the Curriculum Content
Map Australian curriculum documents to NSW context
Develop resources to meet the implementation requirements of the national curriculum (Digital Technologies) supporting hundreds of thousands of students and teachers.
Lead teacher training workshops including introducing online and unplugged resources to use in the classroom to support teachers implementing the national curriculum (Digital Technologies) across NSW and Australia.
Successfully project manage numerous concurrent projects with diverse stakeholders and short timelines
Developed tools in both web technologies and Python

Computing Teacher/Intranet Mgr./ICT Integration Coordinator, Tara Anglican School2008—2017

Teaching and content focused initiatives:

Redesign the Preliminary and HSC IPT programs to best take advantage of technology to make the course engaging as well as academic
Deliver Software Design and Development via blended learning to both internal and external students
Develop the Year 9 IST program and Year 10 IST program to incorporate a Software Development unit into each program to foster girls into difficult computing topics
Develop a program for the computing portion of Year 8 Mandatory Technology
Deliver Year 7 mandatory computing program teaching students to program using various own-developed resources

School wide ICT education teacher initiatives:

Lead the project to identify, source and implement a new Learning Management System
Work with staff from many faculties to develop engaging, technology rich, pedagogically sound units of work
Manage, maintain and instruct staff on the use of school online Learning Management System
Support the school in the use of Edumate and write various SQL queries to extract key information
Work on the timetabling team to develop the school timetable using EdVal
Key member of the team responsible for implementing a 1:1 tablet PC program
Develop and support staff in the use of a school intranet hosted on Microsoft Sharepoint

School wide student initiatives:

Implement an award-winning Laptop Induction Day involving a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure training game
Develop a secondary school wide Digital Citizenship Program
Implement an after-school Code Club in both Junior and Senior schools
Implement a Mathematics club to galvanise student engagement in non-curriculum mathematics

Database Analyst & Program Manager, Microsoft2002—2004

Developed a front-end filterable dashboard for the Technical Support customer satisfaction database using SQL, stored procedures, HTML, CSS and ASP
Developed and Project Managed a SME technical support program in conjunction with a global team
Influence executive decision making in resource planning in the Global Technical Support Centre (APac branch).

Work Experience (Voluntary)

Treasurer, ICTENSW2020—2022

Manage grant submissions, seeking funding for teacher education projects
Organise events for teacher training across diverse sectors and stages
Assist with keeping the association running through Covid lockdowns

President, ICTENSW2017—2020

Led initiatives to collate feedback from constituents across NSW regarding the computing curriculum, working with the NSW Education Standards Board (NESA)
Manage grant submissions, seeking funding for teacher education projects
Organise events for teacher training across diverse sectors and stages
Travel to regional areas to represent ICTENSW and run specific workshops
Awarded several Google Educator PD grants (formerly Computer Science for High School), most recently to develop a train-the-trainer initiative to scalably support regional computing educators across NSW

Director, ICTENSW2014—2017

Assist with the management of events
Conduct training workshops for teachers in various computing topics

Advisory Committee and Tutor, Girls' Programming Network2014—current

The Girls' Programming Network is an initiative to build enthusiasm for computing among primary and secondary aged girls.

Design engaging projects for extra-curricular learning, reaching over a thousand students per year, used by GPN groups Australia wide.
Assist with the management of workshops run every school term with typical attendance of around 150 girls
Dedicate specific time and activities for mentoring advanced students
Upskill new tutors with the skills to teach novice and intermediate programming students
Provide professional advice on future directions and growth opportunities for the Girls' Programming Network

Convener, PyCon AU Education Track2018—current

PyCon AU is an Australia-wide conference for professional developers of the Python programming language. The Education track is a day in the conference for the use of Python in education, focusing on secondary schools.

Undertake outreach in the education community to gather a variety of submitted talks on Python in Education
Plan and schedule a program of talks for computing educators
Organise for a collection of student presentations on their own projects and work
Manage the running of the event on the day

Teacher Trainer, National Computer Science School (NCSS)2013—2020

The National Computer Science School is an intensive 10 day Summer School of computer programming, web development and robotics at the University of Sydney for 120 students, 20 teachers, and 50 tutors.

Senior tutor and lead of Teacher Professional Development
As a senior tutor, I work closely with group leaders and individual tutors to improve their education and technical skills before the camp
During NCSS, I lead teacher-focussed initiatives, working on developing teacher capability, curriculum confidence, and transferring skills from NCSS into activities feasible for implementation in the classroom

Awards

2018NSW Government Premier's volunteer recognition program
2014 ICTENSW Educator of the Year

Education

Charles Sturt University2009—2013

Masters in Education (focus on leadership)
Masters in ICT in Education
Graduate Certificate in ICT in Education (partial scholarship)

University of New England2006—2007

Graduate Diploma of Education in Computer Studies

University of Western Sydney1998—2003

Bachelor of Business, Computing and Information Systems