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About Us
Amber Scotchburn
CEO & Founder, Amber Scotchburn Training Consultants
Amber Scotchburn is the owner and lead consultant of Amber Scotchburn Training
Consultants. Ms. Scotchburn’s 12 years of counseling and educating expertise has
been established through her creation and implementation of leading-edge Educational
& Training programs for students, community members, and educators alike. Combined
with her energy, enthusiasm and initiative this has resulted in a solid commitment to
building trust-based relationships throughout learning communities.
Amber Scotchburn, has been a career educator for over a decade. For ten years, she
was with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, responsible for implementing,
negotiating, facilitating, developing, and mentoring career education and cooperative
education programs province wide.
Ms. Scotchburn’s diverse educational background, including a Bachelor of Social Work
& Bachelor of Education, fused with her passion for people has empowered her to be a
dedicated leader in developing knowledge and educational methodology. She has
demonstrated first-class creativity throughout a decade of innovative curriculum
development.
Ms. Scotchburn is a committed continuous learner and will be a ubiquitous presence
while she leads the strategy, creation, and execution of all contracts. She has been
recognized as talented in her ability to absorb new information and go beyond ‘the box’
in her solution management. As a pro-active consultant, she has innovative and result
focused approaches that will make significant contributions to the shared success of
the needs and goals of all clients.
Among Ms. Scotchburn’s skills and accomplishments are:
- Delivery of over 20 Guidance and Career Education workshops to a wide range of
community members: university bound high school students, students transitioning
from school to work, special needs populations such as those identified as at-risk
youth and those with specific learning needs in literacy and numeracy.
- Recognized as an expert in Career Education, she was contracted to advise on the Career Studies text book, Career Studies 10, for Nelson Publishers.
- Project manager and writer contracted by Curriculum Services Canada (CSC). The team wrote the manual titled, “Alternative Co-operative Experiential Program (ACE)”. The manual is designed to offer integrated curriculum combined with co-operative education experience for credit-deficient secondary school students.
- Sole author of a “Cooperative Education Manual” for
Archbishop Romero Catholic Secondary School. Cooperative Education is a planned learning experience that takes< place in the community and is designed to assist all students in making career decisions.
- Analyzed and revised the “Career Planning Profiles for the Career Education Course”
as part of a team of four Catholic and Public Boards under the sponsorship of theOntario School Counsellors’ Association
- Conducted Training Workshops on the “Career Education Course Exemplars” for all
secondary school educators across the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
- Developed and delivered Train the Trainer workshops on How-to-Teach Career Education
material for all secondary school educators across four Ontario School Boards
- Panel Member for the “Guide to the Directed Use of the Career Studies Course
Profile.” Partnership between Ontario School Counsellor Association (OSCA),
Dufferin-Peel Catholic and Public Boards and the Halton Catholic and Public Boards
- Created an ”Internet Career Planning Reference Manual” for St. Joseph Secondary
School’s Guidance Department
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