
My Digital Portfolio
Whats to come
The content of this Portfolio will include the bulk of my work for my Masters in Education Technology. Â There will be videos describing the many uses of Education Technology and how they make our classrooms a better place. Â Included will be 4 modules that will depict this mission of figuring out what it takes to be an education technology professional and how we can pass that knowledge on to others. Â Finally there will be a capstone project encapsulates all the important content that was learned throughout this course, and how we can use this information going forward. Â Hope you enjoy my Ed tech journey.
About Blake Galligan
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Blake Galligan
My Experience
Senior Teacher
August 2019 - Present
As senior teacher continued my duties as a normal ESL teacher but also had some managerial duties tacked on as well. Â These included class observations of other teachers, schedule making, attending senior teacher and Foreign Academic Manger trainings, and expected to have a better class quality overall to set an example for the regular full time teachers.
PBL Teacher/Music Teacher
July 2020Â - December 2020
PBL (Project Based Learning) and Music Teacher for Public Primary School. Helped with developing the cirriculum for the PBL program and implementing a variety of teaching strategies to get the students to boost their creativity and critical thinking.
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Taught choir music to Grades 1 - 3. Helped in the development of new styles of teaching Music in the modern world and the overall singing quality for students singing as a group.
English/Music Teacher
March 2015 - July 2019
2 years spent as an ESL Teacher and a Homeroom teacher at a private Kindergarten in Chengdu. Â Carried out a wide variety of tasks including English teaching, Music teaching, and physical education. Â Also helped the school with hosting piano recitals, holiday performances, and ongoing events.
Primary/Middle School English Teacher
August 2012 - August 2014
ESL teacher for Primary and Middle School level. Â Helped in all areas of students English level development including reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Â Also was a PBLÂ teacher in where we used Project Based Learning to use a flipped classroom approach and increase the students in class hands on involment and critical thinking.