Little, Isabel, 1876-1937 (Scottish-born teacher in New-Zealand)
Dates
- Existence: 1876 - 1937
Biography
Isabel Little was born in Edinburgh in 1876, to Margaret and Jacob Little. She trained as a teacher at the Free Church Training College, Moray House between 1896 and 1898, and gained her National Froebel Union Higher Certificate (second class) by "private study" in 1912. In the same year she emigrated to New Zealand, and in 1914 she appears in the education records as an assistant teacher at Thorndon Normal School. She later worked as an "Infant Mistress" at Hutt District High (1921-1922), South Wellington (1922-1927), Karori (1928-1929), and Ashburton Borough (1931-1933). She became renown in the Wellington area for her ‘modern methods’ of teaching with play based activities the infant classroom. She retired in December 1933, and died four years later in 1937.