Duncan trained as a teacher at Ardmore Teachers’ College, New Zealand.

He taught in Auckland Intermediate schools at Year 7 and 8 level, one year as a general classroom teacher and two years as full time Art specialist. Semi-specialisation in French and Music in both schools.

He then taught in Papua New Guinea four years – two as principal of Year 1 – 8 School. This was teaching non-English speaking New Guineans in English.

Later, Duncan taught at Dargaville High School (Years 7 and 8), New Zealand for seven years and then at Flaxmere Primary School, Hastings, New Zealand for nine years with Senior Teacher role for classes from Year 2 to Year 6.

In 1987 Duncan established the Hastings Christian School with one multi-level class of sixteen children. It has 140 pupils ranging from Year1 to Year 10. He recently retired from teaching, but is still available for private tutoring.

Qualifications:

NZ Trained Teachers’ Certificate

Certificate of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Trinity College London.

Glenyss is a nurse, having trained at Christchurch Hospital. She completed a Post Graduate diploma in Plastic Surgery from Burwood Hospital, Christchurch.

In 1966 Glenyss went to Papua New Guinea to work in a small mission hospital. She and Duncan met there, returned to NZ and married in 1969.

After their 2 daughters grew up, she worked as the office administrator at the Hastings Christian School. She retired from this position at the end of 2005, and is working at building up the Singapore Math business.

Last year Duncan and Glenyss were given the opportunity to become the Australasian distributors of SingaporeMath. It has been a very new venture for them both, and with Duncan’s input from the education side, and Glenyss able to order stock and send out orders, it has been a very enjoyable experience. They look forward to a growing interest in this excellent mathematics curriculum.

Duncan tutors French, English and other primary school subjects, and also teaching English as a Second Language to new immigrants.

The reason for calling ourselves Tisa Education is that Tisa is Papua New Guinean Pidgin English for "Teacher"