Judith Finnemore Education Consultancy

Smart Ideas Connecting to Real Classrooms

Judith is a highly experienced educator, consultant and advisor with extensive experience as a school leader in both government and private school settingsover more than forty years. With a capacity for problem solving gleaned in challenging schools, Judith provides schools with a very wide variety of strategies for school improvement with one thing in mind: what is best for children. This is never the same from one school to the next so Judith makes sure the suggested strategies fit your school situation. None of these are untested or unrealistic theories derived from textbooks!

She has extensive experience of education in three Middle Eastern countries: Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, where she has lived and worked for the last nine years, firstly as a Head of School, then as a Specialist in the School Improvement Division in ADEC(ADEK) before taking up a role as Managing Consultant at a small education consultancy in Al Ain. She was intrinsic in moving a number of schools from Band C to Band B under the ADEC Inspection criteriaand has been responsible for training many teachers as a registered Programme Leader for Cambridge Professional Development qualifications. She has also been involved in preparing and advising on new school applicationsacross the UAE and has been a Governor and Advisor on a number of school Governing bodies both in the UK, where she was involved in governor training, and the UAE. With such a wealth of experience and ideas she wished to develop herself, it was only natural for Judith to make the decision to go freelance. This enables her to cover a far wider area and support more schools.

Judith’s training style is lively and dynamic. Her mission is to educate kids and you can’t do that without supporting teachers and school leaders who want good ideas they can translate into the classroom setting with a minimum of time and cost in producing materials and getting results. This is what they get. Judith makes sure they know where and how to locate such materials and has a page called ‘The Teachers’ Toolbox’ where she and other contributors upload the latest information that helps spark creativity and innovation. She is devoted to improving the quality of teaching and learning whether in the classroom or outdoors where she is a mine of information about the ancient history and the natural landscape of the UAE.

Having trained and taught in New Zealand, a country renowned for providing good education based on sound but innovative, tried-and-tested educational research, Judith moved to the United Kingdom whereshe held a variety of leadership roles including Head of Department, Head of Faculty, Examinations Officer, Assistant Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher and Headteacher.During her time in one of the UK’s most challenging schools, she was described as a ‘transformational leader’.