Leadership Team

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, Macquarie University
• Master of Arts (Education), Macquarie University
• Diploma of Education, Macquarie University

Biography

Alicia Michielsen chose teaching as a profession as she feels very passionately about helping young people reach their full potential and build successful futures.

Alicia believes education is about building a community that nurtures the social, psychological and intellectual development of young people to help them to explore their identities and become confident, successful life-long learners. Alicia’s goal is to inspire students to develop and demonstrate empathy, to understand how their actions impact others, and to create a nurturing, collegiate environment in which they can succeed.

Alicia maintains that it is important to encourage students to accept responsibility for their own learning, a philosophy she applies to her own life. Alicia regularly undertakes professional development, believing that good educators must also be good learners. As Dean of Curriculum, Alicia is across current research and teaching pedagogy and uses this knowledge to enhance student learning experiences and support a range of specialised student needs.

Alicia has considerable experience in educational leadership training and driving student success both in Australia and internationally. She has worked with special needs students from economically disadvantaged communities and also worked as a classroom teacher at Port Vila International School in Vanuatu and as a Curriculum Developer for the Vanuatu National Training Council.

Alicia is the mother of two children, Adrian aged 23 and Alexandra 19 who are both studying at the University of Sydney. Adrian is studying to be a humanities teacher and Alexandra is completing an Economics Honours degree.