About Me

Hi my name is Michael Menadue,

I am currently studying a master in teaching primary and middle school.  Initially as I grew up I was not interested in becoming a teacher and in fact was completely against it as my mother is a teacher.  From a young age I have been very passionate about sport and love almost all aspects of it, due to this I have played a huge range of sports in my time such as football, basketball and table tennis.  Due to this I began a degree in human movement at UniSA.  It was during this degree that I realised that despite initially not wanting to become a teacher, working with children was something that I really enjoyed.  This is the reason that I have become my masters of teaching after the completion of my human movement degree.

English has not been a topic that has interested me greatly in the past although I don’t mind reading when I find a good book.  This will be an interesting course for me and will hopefully provide me with a greater interest in reading and the English language in general. 

A Bit About Rose

My name is Rose Paton. This year I started a Masters of Teaching (primary and middle) and I want to be a primary school teacher. Some people think it is strange that I want to teach because I was home schooled my whole life, but I love to learn and I love to teach kids.

I've always loved reading; when I was little I used to take a whole pile of books to bed with me, just in case! More recently I have been enjoying reading books by Paullina Simons and Jodi Picoult. Of course, my all time favourite series would have to be the Harry Potter books. Nothing has ever caught my imagination as well as the Harry Potter series does. They were the first real novels I had ever read, and for that reason, they will always be special to me.

About Me

Hi, I’m Bianca Pandopulos.

My interest in teaching began at the age of seven, a peculiar period of my life when it was considered fashionable to want to be a princess, model or teacher when we "grew up". However, with terrible acting skills and little chance of marrying royalty, I gave up these ideas and instead developed a passion for understanding how other people’s minds worked, particularly children.

In 2010 I completed a Bachelor degree in Science majoring in psychology and physiology at the University of Adelaide, and then spent several months contemplating what to do with it other than fold it into a rather expensive origami paper crane. After working for a brief and unpleasant stint as a research assistant in allied health (main job roles: mail in, mail out, photocopy and repeat!) I have since returned to my teaching roots.

Now currently studying a Masters of Teaching (Primary and Middle Years) at the University of South Australia and privately teaching piano to children, I am fulfilling my childhood dream of becoming a teacher – arguably less glamorous than a princess or model, but certainly more satisfying to me.

In my spare time I play and teach piano, and read obsessively. My dream is to one day live in North America.