Darryn Kruse works as a teacher at Fitzroy High School, and as a professional writer and speaker.
He has recently worked with the Education Foundation as Project Coordinator of the William Buckland Foundation Middle Years of Schooling 'Lighthouse Schools' Project.
Darryn has written numerous books and articles, and regularly provides workshops, seminars and addresses - on adolescence and middle schooling; on literacy, cooperative learning; assessment and reporting; multiple intelligences’; learning styles; brain-compatible learning; catering for individual difference; personalising learning; inquiry-based learning; innovative teaching and learning; and thinking-oriented curriculum. His most recent publications, Thinking Strategies for the Inquiry Classroom (2009) and Thinking Tools for the Inquiry Classroom (2010) are published by Curriculum Corporation.
Darryn has over twenty years’ teaching experience, having taught history, social education and English from Years 7 to 12, and maths, geography, physical education, health, food technology, LOTE and information technology at junior secondary level.
He also has experience teaching language and literacy at Years 3 to 6, and has lectured in education at university level.