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Kerensa Johnston

Language Arts

Theater Arts

Community

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Cross-cultural; 

differentiated; empathetic learning

Kerensa Johnston is a passionate and creative educator with over 25 years of experience teaching, working, and training in schools and communities across Indonesia, as well as internationally in the UK, India, Hong Kong, and Australia. She has recently completed her Master of Teaching with Curtin University, including her final practicum at Hedland Senior High School and Ballajura Community College in Western Australia.

 

Her teaching experience spans ESL (young learners, Cambridge PET, FCE, IELTS, TOEFL), a range of international curricula including IB, IMYC, and Indonesian curriculum, as well as mainstream Literature and Drama. She is particularly passionate about supporting students with literacy and numeracy development, equipping them with the skills to achieve their goals and improve learning outcomes.

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Kerensa brings a wealth of experience working with students from diverse cultural backgrounds and with a wide range of learning needs. She is also a respected playwright, performer, and director in Indonesia, and before settling there, she trained with theatre practitioners and masters in Europe and Asia, and toured schools with Queensland Arts Council and Nexus Arts in Australia.

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She is now in Australia and hoping to live and teach in a remote community.

Why Choose Kerensa?

Brings  Students Together

" You have this way of teaching that doesn't leave anyone out and somehow brings people closer together." Monica Year 8

Cultural Understanding

"Your work, your attentiveness to cultural nuance and historical significance, and your perseverance are an inspiration for not only young people here in Indonesia, but all young artists and mature artists alike. What you have read, seen, felt and internalised have manifested into theatrical accomplishments that transcend the medium they are presented in.  Thank you for ensuring that what you believe, what you think and what you do are in harmony. Please, please, Kerensa, do not ever stop creating. And becoming. And teaching us all."

 

Tiana Ennamorati
Indonesian-to-English Translator, Acrylic Painter (Self-employed)

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Compassion, Confidence

"Our teacher Ibu Kerensa builds up our confidence."  Djimon, 11 years old,. DarahRouge Drama Club Student

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"Kerensa's drama club has not only taught the children about acting, lighting, creativity, imagination, politics, self esteem, teamwork, commitment and responsibility (I know Justin was having a fever that day but he knew the show must go on. And that night, he held his head high & sang his little heart out, collapsing after the show). But this little drama club has also taught the children about something more profound, that is compassion & love for others." Ibu Novi, Le Seminyak

Always Supportive

Throughout the holiday, our extra three lessons were very useful, I now have better vocabulary, and I am not  thinking about being a movie editor in the future and taking lessons at university  because of your help and giving ideas to make a video, (which my parents really loved and was really fun.) And then I had more  video projects for different subjects so I was very familiar with it. I know where to start and I know what I am doing. So thanks to you."  Abi Year 9 

What the people say

I LOVE  ENGLISH CLASS! I like LA because Ibu Kerensa is a very fun teacher and she is nice. She loves to help students with assignments. She suggests things to help students. I love Ibu Kerensa generally.

Angitta 7A 2015

Hear what others say about her.

"I love that you actually care about your students and try to make them as calm as possible, even in some of the more stressful situations. It's nice having a mental teacher care about mental state for once."

Nadia Y7 August 2019

Positive feedback all round.

"She is very unique indeed, and my daughter Aisha, especially, loves her very much and really looks up to her.
I am extremely grateful that both of my children have had a chance to be her students and experience her passion in teaching. It has given them a different perception to learning English, and she has had a positive impact on my kids
with regards to  out of the box.”

Parent  Testimonial 2021

Ibu Miranda Firartri

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If I sound like the teacher your school wants, then  lets talk.

Currently employed in South 

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