JET Education Services Congratulates Kelly Shiohira

Kelly Shiohira holds a Master’s of Science Degree in International Educational Development from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies from Rhodes University. She has experience in international education and has worked in America, Japan, Cambodia, Indonesia and South Africa. 

Kelly is an experienced educational development professional and held the position of Specialist Manager at JET for over 5 years. She works across JET’s value chain of research, strategy and planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation to ensure high-quality programmes, policies and support to education. Her areas of specialisation are technology for education and development, literacy acquisition and skills development. She has led and contributed to a number of large-scale research and implementation projects in the South African education sector and internationally.

Her experience in curriculum design, integrating ICT into the classroom, differential education in second-language learning, cultural adaptation, materials development in indigenous languages and evaluating the impact of ICT in the classroom will be critical to JET going forward.

We congratulate her on her appointment and look forward to the great things that she will accomplish.