Information About Taiwo - Muldersdrift tutor

Personal Description:

I hold a Master of Science Degree in Political Science (International Politics) with special interest in teaching, training, research and development with over 15 years of experience. Because of my passion and commitment for training and development, am recognised for: Have an active and inquiring mind and always looking for an opportunity that is both challenging and stimulating. I am very energetic with a positive approach to life. Commitment to task at hand and ability to work under pressure.

Tutoring Experience:

I have over 15 years of teaching experience both within and outside the country. I have been around in South Africa for over seven years and all these years, I have been teaching at Damelin College and training students from various higher institutions in South Africa in research project writing. I also engage in private home service teaching. I had taught at the Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State. Nigeria and Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria. The only Premier Military University in Africa.

Tutoring Approach:

Reality Pedagogy is an approach to teaching and learning where teacher gaining an understanding of student realities, and then use this information as the starting point for instruction. These tools are:
1. Cogenerative dialogues: Where teachers and students discuss the classroom and both suggest ways to improve it. 2. Coteaching: Where students get opportunities to learn content and then teach the class.3. Cosmopolitanism: Where students have a role in how the class operates and in what is taught. 4. Context: Where the neighborhood and community of the school is seen as part of the classroom. 5. Content: Where the teacher has to acknowledge the limitations of his/her content knowledge and work to build his/her content expertise with students