Professor Betty Mcdonald Mcdonald

With over five decades as an experienced pedagogue and tutor, you can be sure to benefit from my varied teaching strategies tailored to suit your individual learning styles, learning preferences and multiple intelligences. I’m super patient, understanding, approachable, dependable, proactive, kind, authentic and certainly open to new ideas.

You’ll be delighted to benefit from my hugh smorgasbord of student-focused teaching strategies like:
• brainstorming that encourages you to think aloud and not be intimidated
• visualization where you picture in advance what you intend to do
• problem-based learning strategies that cater for your curiosity and desire to explore the world
• storyboarding where you visually represent in sequence your thoughts
• experiential learning that allows to actually experience real life situations
• differentiation that treats each learner as an individual
• repetition that undergirds clear understanding
• reciprocal teaching where you become the teacher at times
• peer teaching when you share with and learn from your colleagues
• collaborative or cooperative learning that encourages effective team work
• critical thinking that analyses available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to form a reasonable logical judgement
• problem solving that generates numerous viable solutions
• teaching thinking skills to better navigate learning
• dual coding or combining words and visuals in teaching materials to reinforce concepts in two different ways
• class discussions stimulating useful interactions
• inquiry-based learning that allows you to satisfy your curiosity
• divergent thinking that takes you beyond your imagination
• convergent thinking that enables you to find a solution
• project work to allow you to explore the world around you
• interdisciplinary approach to minimise mental compartmentalisation
• providing timely feedback and feedforward
• open communication for self expression
• addressing errors and misconceptions to prevent repetition
• revision that reinforces conceptual understanding
• effective questioning techniques to provoke deep thinking
• individualised or personalised learning to cater for individual differences
• using technology to enhance learning
• flip models and other visual aids to introduce concepts and new ideas
• index card usage to ‘trick’ the brain into learning more because of bite-sized information
• modeling that shows learners what to do after telling them how to do
• scaffolding to support learning by providing props to enhance learning
• behaviour management to ensure there is order in the learning space.
• professional development that encourages each learner to self develop
• speeded activities to encourage better time management
• reflection that helps in reinforcing learned concepts
• homework to reinforce learning
• gamification so you’ll be really having fun and more fun, etc.