Marguerite
My Passion & How I Inspire
I am gentle and patient and I encourage students to see mistakes as a vital part of learning rather than something to be critical of. Each student is unique and learns in different ways. I will never make assumptions about preferred learning styles. Instead, I will explore what style or combination of styles suit each individual student. The lesson environment that I create, with individually tailored objectives and well structured exercises and questions (generally from past examination papers), will help each student grow in confidence.Â
I have a very strong background in academia and I worked as a postdoctoral researcher for five years in the field of Cosmochemistry. This practical experience allows me to make my lessons more rich and vibrant, and helps my students to engage better with the many abstract concepts, which are integral to these subjects. During my lessons I will regularly revisit methods or concepts from previous lessons so that students knowledge and understanding remains fresh.Â
One of the biggest life-skills that can taught through the medium of Science and Maths is critical thinking. Thus, my lessons are structured so that students can move through the stages of Bloom’s Taxonomy, from the lower order skills of knowledge and comprehension, through to the higher order skills of synthesis and evaluation. What this ultimately means for my students is that they have a strong command of the subject and they can apply their understanding to unfamiliar situations and problems, which is vital to ensuring excellent examination grades. In tandem with this I emphasise the links between Maths and Science and I encourage students to see all subjects as a colourful interwoven tapestry, rather than discrete patches of colour.Â
