Gavin Nial Mcgonigle Mcgonigle

Experience:

I have gained extensive teaching experience at four secondary schools during the past twelve months. My teaching experience falls within the parameters of GCSE, KS3, KS4, KS5, A-Level, and preparing students for university entry.

Qualities:

My aim is to teach, motivate, and inspire young people to become good learners: to help them enjoy and find a life long passion and purpose in literature and learning, to help them find in literature what they missed in life.

Teaching methods:

To help students recognise that all have potential to attain well, regardless of your present level of attainment. My teaching methods demonstrate a wide range of pedagogy principles.

a) Teach knowledge retrieval and comprehensive questions, 'do now' tasks at the beginning and throughout lessons to help gauge and develop learning.

b) Studying context early in lessons. For example, this could be through reading a passage and stopping to answer set questions, which allows us to understand the writer and questions more accurately and with more insight.

b) Adaptive teaching aimed at subject knowledge and curriculum demands, (i.e., quote explosions, teaching how to zoom into a quote or line of poetry). How to study at word, text, and paragraph level. How to practice writing frames, structure paragraphs so students can write in a detailed and analytical way.

e) Whole class feedback -to highlight class strengths and improve understanding. Teaching students on how to get better, and reteach and revise strategies through questions, learning extensions, live annotating, to help with next level planning.