Joel Godiah Olwande

Attentive and adaptable educator with extensive experience partnering with colleagues, parents and ensuring success of students. Effective in leveraging student feedback to create authentic learning experiences that address individual strengths and connects to real-world issues, problems, and applications. Detail-oriented planner and problem-solver assesses quality and effectiveness of instruction and makes positive changes to better serve the team’s needs. Good decision-making, critical-thinking and personnel management skills.

• I really enjoyed Joel's workshop on MYP Assessment in Drama - I liked how he modelled examples of authenticity and student voice which helped to remind me of the importance of engaging our students this way. He also took his time to respond to questions sincerely and gave me lots of inspiration for future assessments/plans., Toddle MYP Assessment Collaborative, Creating Authentic Units for MYP Theatre, 01/2023
• Patient, professional, collaborative and supportive. Thank you for your time and energy. You were well prepared and am passionate about your subject and being a workshop leader., IB Workshop Participant Report for Workshop Leader, MYP Creating Authentic Units, Xi'an LiangJiaTan International School, 11/2022
• Great instructor. Very patient with participant's questions. Would absolutely take a workshop where he was leading the instruction. The self-paced elements dominated the workshop., IB Workshop Participant Report for Workshop Leader, MYP Arts-Visual and Performing, Canadian International School of Beijing, 10/2021
• I respected his nuanced perspective towards the study of theatre arts, and his ability to translate all our theoretical work through engaging classroom simulations and practical activities…He always provided me with constructive feedback that ultimately pushed me out of my comfort zone and encouraged me to embrace various aspects of performance – from musicals, to mimes, to tableaus. It is with his guidance that I was able to direct, produce, act in and write my own play for my senior project. Most of all, I admire his ability to appreciate dramatic theory and performance equally. Each of our classroom sessions was always balanced and exposed us to both sides of the performance world…, Karishma Bhagani, New York University Class of 2019 | B.F.A in Drama and B.A. in History
• Joel is a creative teacher who inspires students through his own passion for performance. He has planned and delivered creative and imaginative schemes of work for students of all ages… His love for learning is obvious in his daily interactions with students and the conversations he initiates with other teachers. If there is a whole school event or activity, Joel will always be one of the first to volunteer. Whether it is dancing on stage in the Grade 11 show, raising money for charity with his tutor group, helping to build an orphanage with IB students, or playing for the staff football team, Joel clearly enjoys being involved…, Sarah Harrison, Secondary Deputy Head-Curriculum, Academia Britanica Cuscatleca, El Salvador, 06/2016