Jeanette Romkema, Partner
Jeanette Romkema has been a Dialogue Education
practitioner and educator since 1996.
As an educator and facilitator of learning who
practices most often in a higher education environment,
Jeanette is respected for her care in customizing her instructional
designs to the learners' needs to create engaging and empower
learning experiences. Jeanette enjoys the creative process of
teaching and learning and pays special attention to the providing
an energizing learning environment through the use of colour,
texture, and visuals.
Her workshop designs and facilitation model
the principles of inclusion, relevance, congruence and personal
meaning-making. Typically, this leads to stronger personal relationships,
friendships and a growing community.
With graduate and postgraduate work in the fields
of education, her specialty is communicating through visual language.
Jeanette's areas of greatest experience and depth include the
academic, community development and voluntary sectors, in particular:
- Professional development and staff training
for elementary,
secondary, and university teachers
- HIV and AIDS education
- International development
- Emergency disaster relief
- Teaching through the arts
Jeanette has extensive international and cross-cultural
experience, having worked and lived in numerous countries, including:
Nigeria, Niger, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, the Gambia,
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Senegal, China,
Bangladesh, Romania, Belgium, the Netherlands, Haiti, the USA
and Canada.
Presently, Jeanette lives in Toronto, Canada
with her husband Peter Noteboom and two boys. Jeanette loves fabric,
beads, poetry, and photography. Together with her family, she
enjoys making time for camping, exploring, traveling, the arts,
books, music, and games. Finding and trying out "the new/unknown"
is her passion.
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