Rod Holdaway is an artist and a self-employed special education teacher. He is represented by Stella Downer Fine Art in Sydney Australia and He works with students in both Primary and Secondary Schools.

Rod is a trained Special Education teacher and artist with over 37 years experience in teaching children and young people. He specialises in teaching literacy to primary school children. He also tutors secondary school students in English up to and including Year 12. He also teaches numeracy to primary school children who are experiencing learning difficulties.

In recent years Rod worked as a consultant literacy and learning support teacher in a Sydney Montessori school. In the past he has worked as a Learning Support Teacher in both primary and secondary schools. He was the Special Needs Coordinator for 5 years in a Primary school in Sydney’s Western Suburbs and ran a successful and much loved Readers Theatre program in an Eastern Suburbs Primary school for 7 years. He has run his own Educational Therapy program teaching children in primary and early secondary schools for 24 years. He has proven success teaching students with a wide range of special needs: emotional, behavioural, intellectual, physiological, developmental, hearing impaired and language processing difficulty. Rod is the author of the Barrington Stokes teacher’s resource books published by Scholastic in 2003.