Lynette Jobson considers herself “very fortunate” to be able to spend 50 years in a career she loves.
The Wyndham Green resident is the principal at Alamanda College and was one 384 people recognised by the state government for long-serving dedication to the Victorian Education program.
Ms Jobson said the acknowledgment was a “reality check” for all that she had accomplished.
“It makes you think about how much you enjoyed the career that you’ve chosen…it just makes you stop and reflect on where you are and all the people that you’ve worked with and that you’ve met along that journey,” she said.
Ms Jobson said some of her proudest moments was seeing the effects her teaching had on students.
“It’s very rewarding when you see that the things that you’re doing with them are having an impact in their learning, so that you start to redefine what teaching is really about,” she said.
Ms Jobson said she also enjoyed working with the late Tony Buzan, who popularised mind mapping as a technique.
“The school that I was working in then, we all mind mapped the whole school,” she said.
“We were the only school in the world where every student did that and that was his life’s work, so he was really proud that a whole school had taken on that principle.”
“Our work went to the United Nations as a presentation, I was pretty proud of that,” Ms Jobson said.
Ms Jobson said she was “very pleased and honoured” when she was selected to open Alamanda, one of the biggest school in the state of Victoria.
“I wanted to be a principal that understood the impact that education can have on those educators and the students,” she said.
“And that the school that I put together was a school that people felt was more of a home and a family than an institution.”
