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Dina A.

Research Specialist

  • Hourly rate: R250 /hr
  • Experience: 20 Years

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Throughout my education years, I became a keen observer of my teachers/lecturers, comparing their different philosophies and approaches, thinking about their teaching methods, and assessing which methods enhanced my own learning. By continuing this analysis throughout the years from school to university level, I slowly and deliberately amassed a collection of effective teaching techniques. The distillation of those years of observation and analysis, combined with the lessons I am still learning from my own mentoring and training experience, yields the overriding principle that I strive for in the classroom: clarity in presenting material, detailing expectations, and in expressing educational goals. I am enthusiastic about teaching and hope to inspire students to learn about biology and natural history. My current postdoctoral position does not require teaching but I take advantage of opportunities to teach when I can. I have taught several high school students, undergraduates and graduate students working on projects with me (see Teaching Experience in CV). I have also talked to groups of undergraduates about career paths in the sciences and to donors about the importance of funding Parasitology and Taxonomy research. I strongly believe that tying the students’ motivations such as doing well in the course & having fun to the teachers own expressing concepts clearly & reaching the goals of the experiments; makes for an exciting setting. Being excited about a subject is contagious and students learn subjects better if they are interested in them. I love the challenges and the rewards of teaching and my teaching philosophy of reaching every student with active learning techniques and flexible strategies constantly pays off and I often learn as many new things about the subject as my students.

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