Travel and Tourism Teacher at Sebastopol State Secondary School

National Productivity and Quality Convention 2019 - Silver Award (Government/Parastatal Bodies)

Participation in MCSAR Public Service Excellence Award 2017 – Winner of ‘Special Award’.
Participation in Mentoring Programme, Sharing of Best Practice and ExtraCurricular Activities.

Dev Woodit has a BSc (2010) Hons in Tourism and Hospitality Management and an MSc (2013) in Educational Administration and Technology from the University of Technology, Mauritius.
Currently, he is a Travel & Tourism Educator for the Ministry of Education, Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research of Mauritius. He has also been teaching Travel & Tourism from 2011 to 2016 at Curepipe College, Mauritius, where he held the post of Head of Department for Travel & Tourism.

His contributions to the improvement of academic performance at Sebastopol State Secondary School in Mauritius was recognized by the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reforms, Public Service Excellence Award 2017; which is a scheme that honors and recognizes Ministries/Departments or Units/Divisions that have excelled in adopting innovative management approaches and made visible breakthrough in service delivery.

Technology Enabled Learning

Today’s students represent the first generations to grow up with new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cameras, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Therefore, our learners are coined as ‘digital natives’, referring to the generation born from the late 80sonwards. To the Digital Natives – school often feels pretty much as if we’ve brought in a population of heavily accented, unintelligible foreigners to lecture them. They often can’t understand what the Immigrants (teachers) are saying. The purpose of this intervention is to explore the current usage of technology in classrooms to meet the needs of Digital Natives. The intervention will focus on innovative pedagogies being used through Blended and Experiential Learning and as well as making use of innovative technologies to manage classrooms. The sustainable implementation of technology in classroom will also be considered. 

• Have the opportunity to present my innovative pedagogical practices.
• Broaden the horizon of my pedagogical approach & deepen my understanding on how to improve my classroom strategies further.