Farjahan is from Bangladesh where she was born and raised in Dhaka. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science, followed by a Master’s Degree in Social Science specialising in Public Administration from the University of Dhaka and more recently a Master’s in Education Leadership Management and Planning from the Institute of Development at BRAC University in Dhaka. Along the way she earned qualifications in TEFL and in TESMC (Teaching English as a Second Language in Mainstream). More recently, she earned a PhD. In Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Idaho, USA. Her professional career has combined interests in media through radio and television broadcasting, and education in the areas of production and hosting interviews and voiceovers. She was a senior research analyst with an education information management company and Farjahan has extensive experience as a free-lance translator. She has simultaneously pursued a career in education and taught at the Aga Khan School in Dhaka before joining the faculty of the International School of Dhaka (both IB World Schools) as a teacher at all levels (IBDP, IBMYP, IBPYP) and trainer of teachers; she left ISD to become Principal at the MASCO School Kanchan, Dhaka, a school that follows the Cambridge Curriculum. During that time she also worked as a teacher-trainer. In 2016, Farjahan received a NSF (National Science Foundation) Research Assistantship for pursuing doctoral degree at the College of Education, University of Idaho, USA. At the University of Idaho, Farjahan worked as a research assistant, taught several core teacher education courses as lead instructor. In her last year of PhD, she worked as the program coordinator at the International Programs Office. Upon completing her doctorate in 2022, she moved to North Carolina with an Assistant Professor of Education position at Carolina University. Most recently, she joined Northern New Mexico College at New Mexico, working as Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, supervising the distance education program as well.
Her teaching specialty has been IBDP Language and Literature Bengali A, and she designed the IBDP Bengali A Literature Course at ISD. She has also supported SSST Bengali A with students at an IB World School in Netherlands. Through her work as an IB teacher she has participated in several courses on the IBDP, as well as the IBMYP and IBDP. She has also supervised IB Extended Essays on The Impact of liberation war on Bangladeshi culture and Female character pattern of an author (Bengali). A highly experienced IB educator, and although her career has moved her into the university world, her passion for Bengali Literature remains and she is delighted to continue supporting our Bengali students.