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Focus
Consultancy is the educational advisory arm of the company Fenton and
Associates Ltd which is owned by Christine and Michael Fenton. |
 Dr Christine
Fenton is the lead consultant for Focus Consultancy and has
served the
tertiary education sector for over 20 years. She has had many roles from
teacher and mentor to contract scientist, as well as senior executive
roles in the Tertiary sector including General Manager, Head of
Faculty, and Executive Director.
She is a highly motivated, experienced and
focused senior executive with excellent evaluation and analysis
skills. Christine is innovative and critical as well as being
approachable and able to bring out the best from people.
In terms of her philosophy she combines coaching with vision, working
towards identifying and using peoples strengths.
Christine specialises in educational leadership,
curriculum design and approvals, as well as academic systems including
quality assurance policies and procedures.
She has expert
knowledge of Tertiary Education Commission and NZQA reporting,
programme approval and auditing requirements. Christine also has expert
knowledge and experience of preparing for External Evaluation and
Review (EER) events, with a number of clients successfully achieving
EER category 1 status.
Two recent outstanding achievements include the design, development,
staff mentoring and successful NZQA application for the first secondary
school in New Zealand to offer a New Zealand Certificate in Study and
Employment Pathways (Levels 3 and 4).
Christine then wrote Green School New Zealand's successful application
to gain University Entrance equivalence for its High School Diploma
(Advanced).
For more
information see Publications or Videos & Testimonials |
 Michael
Fenton is a multi-award-winning scientist, teacher, and teacher educator and education researcher. Michael is a highly regarded science communicator with a focus on quality teaching at a national and international level.
Michael is an expert in all areas of STEM teaching, having taught in all areas of science, mathematics, and digital technology from Primary school to Tertiary level. He is a highly regarded programme and curriculum designer
with plenty of experience in instructional design for face-to-face and online learning by distance at scale.A summary with examples is on his TEACHING page
Michael is research active, a professional member of the Royal Society of New Zealand. A summary of STEM education projects is on his PROJECTS page
Michael invented the 'Build it, Test it, Use it' pedagogy as part of his Maker Science strategy for authentic hands-on science. He pioneered the use of digital multimeters as data logger substitutes for Primary and Secondary students. See his DIGITAL MULTIMETERS / DIY SENSORS page
Michael also pioneered, in 2008, the classroom use of Casio FX-9750 graphing calculators for real-time data logging. His second recent discovery avoids purchasing a separate data acquisiton unit costing $400+ , using a $4 chip instead - a one hundred fold decrease in cost! See his CASIO CALCULATOR DATA LOGGER page
He uses TV props (e.g., Ghostbusters, a Dalek, R2D2) and music to teach the creativity in science. See his New Zealand LOST IN SPACE B9 ROBOT page
He is an expert robot designer and game coder, using game software to build science sensor and remote control applications. See his RIGEL page
See his GAME DESIGN page
He has won a number of prestigious awards, as a scientist, a teacher, and an education lecturer. See his CV page
Michael is a seasoned science communicator. See his TALKS page
Michael has
also worked with a number
of organisations to write and deliver workshops exploring assessment,
moderation, differentiated learning, authentic science and mathematics
teaching
strategies as well as the appropriate use of digital technologies and
eLearning / distance learning.
See his WORKSHOPS page
More recently, he worked with Christine, contributing to the STEM
content and curriculum design, Google classroom instructional design
and assessment design for New Zealand Certificate in Study and
Employment Pathways (Levels 3 and 4). He taught at the first Secondary
school in Aotearoa New Zealand to offer this NZQA accredited
qualification.
For more information see Linkedin |
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