The Academic Committee of SHARE Education is greatly pleased to annonce that they have granted the 2019 SHARE INNOVATION AND ACHIEVEMENT AWARD to

 

MAGISTER JENNIFER VERSCHOOR

 

The SHARE awards are granted annually to educators for distinguished performance in the field of ELT in particular, and of education in general. The SHARE awards recipients are educators who have made a commendable contribution to the profession in the particular areas specified for each year

 

The recipient of the INNOVATION AND ACHIEVEMENT AWARD award is an educator who has preferably created, or otherwise introduced a new methodology in our country which has been regarded as highly valuable by the Academic Committee.

 

The 2019 Award will be presented on Friday 2nd August, 2019 at 17:45 hours at the end of the SHARE Convention

Jennifer Verschoor  is a Magíster en Entornos Virtuales  graduated at Universidad Nacional de  la Patagonia Austral and a Licenciada en Dirección y Supervisión de Entidades  Educativas from Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). She holds a degree in Literary, Technical and Legal Translation from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino. She completed an online programme called English Teaching and ICT in the Classroom validated by Trinity College London. She also holds a degree in Virtual Environments and a Specialization in Education and ICT offered by the Ministry of Education in Argentina and the International Certificate in Educational Leadership from the University of Cambridge, U.K.

 

She is the co-author of “My First Digital Journey”, an ebook published by The Round in December 2012. She specializes in online teaching, mobile learning and training via virtual learning environments.

Currently she is  the Head of Educational Technology at  St. George's College North, Argentina.

 

She has participated and presented papers in many national and international seminars, workshops and conferences. She is a teacher trainer for ESSARP, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Cambridge English and SimpleK12 giving teacher training courses on the integration of ICT. She has been nominated for an ELTon Award in 2013 under the category Local Innovation. She is a Microsoft Innovative Educator 2014 and Microsoft Fellow 2016.

 

Previous awardees of SHARE AWARDS include: Doctor Ana María Rozzi de Bergel, Magíster Liliana Luna, Magíster Mabel Gallo,Magíster Oriel Villagarcía and Licenciado Gustavo Paz, among others.

For more information on the awards and the full list of previous awardees, please refer to: http://www.shareeducation.com.ar/2019/howto/share-awards.html

 

 

Dr. Omar Villarreal

Editor