Hikarigaoka Campus (Faculty)
Our Faculty
At A-JIS, our faculty represents educators and professionals from 15 countries around the world. All are qualified and certified as teachers within their home countries, and all have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in their field of expertise. Our faculty represents educators who possess the capability and experience to deliver our curricular focus: the International Baccalaureate Programme, according to our mission and values. They are a dedicated group of people skilled at inspiring students to seek opportunities that lay ahead as wise, creative, entrepreneurial, solution-driven global leaders.
Abe, Mamina
PYP Japanese Teacher
Ahn, Jeong Hee
Kindergarten Teaching Assistant
“Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together, make this world a beautiful garden.”
—Anonymous
Alatiit, Sam
Learning Support Teacher
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge" —Albert Einstein
Alexander, Sarah Jo
EAL Teacher Assistant
Balugo, Faye Anne
Kindergarten Teaching Assistant
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” —W.E.B Du Bois
Basu, Paramita
Grade 1 Teacher
Batnini, Soulef, PhD
MYP English Language Acquisition Teacher/ Learning Support Specialist
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” —Nelson Mandela
Bhavaraju, Gayatri
MYP Math Teacher
“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.” —Albert Einstein
Brockington, Christopher
Grade 3 Teacher
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." —Henry Ford
Chen, Karen
Grade 5 Teacher
「健全なる魂は、健全なる精神と健全なる肉体に宿る。」 “A sound ‘soul’ dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.” —Atsushi Okubo
