Geography and ICT Teacher

I was born in Bucharest in a family of teachers, so my path in life was obvious from the very beginning. I had wanted to teach since I was 12 years old but could not decide which subject I should go for. That all changed when I started being part of a folk-dance group with whom I traveled the world, dancing at festivals and seeing different cultures, landscapes, bioclimates and ways of living. It was then that I realized I wanted to be a Geography teacher and I never looked back.

I did both my BA and my MA at the University of Bucharest, where I enriched my knowledge of Geography. My main focus was on climate and bioclimates, having written my dissertations on “The major bioclimate changes after the opening of the Nuclear Plant in Cernavoda ” and “The redefinition of the heat bubble of Bucharest ”.

I started my teaching career immediately after getting my degree and have been doing this for over 10 years now. I’ve taught students from 5th to 12th grade in a variety of contexts. Working with so many different types of learners with various interests and preferences made my way of teaching develop constantly, taking into account everyone’s needs and requirements. I also sought to widen my students’ learning experience, which is why I helped organize science fairs and field trips that I enjoyed taking part in and am proud of to this day.

I feel that one’s responsibility as an educator goes beyond one’s work at school. For this reason, I became involved in the production of a television show that had a segment on Geography, through which I hoped to stir the audience’s interest in this subject. It is also through this project that I met a lot of foreign ambassadors, with whom I would often talk in the green room about different social and environmental problems the world was facing. I was also part of the Baccalaureate commission multiple times in different roles, which made me excel under pressure and enabled me to develop new skills that I would use later on.

I am now part of the Avenor College team as a Geography and ICT Teacher and am looking forward to helping everyone learn and enjoy themselves while doing it. I plan my lessons based on the students’ needs, and aim to foster an engaging, interactive and supporting atmosphere in class.

I hope this school year will bring new opportunities for everyone and I can’t wait to work with my new students, as Form tutor.

We are accredited by the Romanian Ministry of Education and authorized by Cambridge International Examinations to offer Checkpoint, IGCSE and A level examinations. The school is also a member of the Common Ground Collaborative, an innovative global network of leading international schools. Avenor College was founded by the Avenor Foundation, a non-profit organization created by Diana Segarceanu and Florin Segarceanu.