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Introduction
Professor Betty MCDONALD, FHEA, Ph.D., MPhil, MEd, Pg. Dip Ed.,mAERA a Fulbright Fellow, Haggai Institute Fellow, Commonwealth Fellow, Canada-CARICOM Faculty Leadership and Endeavour Executive Awardee is primarily responsible for CPD at UTT. With over 50 years academic experience, she has taught at all levels of the education system from early childhood to tertiary. Committed to community, she has to her record over 224 edited publications and presentations, including over 45 academic books.
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July 2006 - August 2008
August 2015 - present
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International Conference on Education, https://iconnects.unsur.ac.id/home, Suryakancana University, Indonesia
The use of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as an effective teaching strategy especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is without doubt that the world has become a global village where footprints of interdependence and connectiveness supersede those of independence and isolation. Fueled and accelerated by globalisation, one key agenda item of great importance to most Higher Education (HE) institutions across the planet is internationalisation; the zeitgeist of t...
The world has become a global village where footprints of interdependence and connectiveness supersede those of independence and isolation. Increasing numbers of perspicacious academics have seen the need to explore new cross-cultural frontiers in search of novel ideas and perspectives outside their place of residence and seek international employm...
How Higher Educational institutions are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This present book seeks to guide academics in a step-by-step manner, using practical, tried-and-tested methods for preparing to take their courses fully online. This process is mandatory because instructional designers are tasked with using your already prepared materials to assist you in preparing the final product for full online delivery. Delibe...
Who doesn’t want to improve teaching and learning? A lot of persons continue to ask searching questions like: ‘What’s the use of this?; Will I ever use this in real life?; Why do I need all this if I’m never going to be able to use it?; Why waste time learning all this stuff?; Of what good is all this to me now?’ The never ending questions continue...
Presenting difficult-to-understand concepts in the form of poetry, this book allows mathematics to come to life. Interest is heightened; understanding clarified; interdisciplinarity promoted; enthusiasm aroused; and effective revision facilitated. Where possible, most of the poems are deliberately kept as one pagers. Poems with relevant graphics ca...
Exploring the challenges Caribbean universities face in implementing Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
Challenges facing Caribbean universities in implementing Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
Problem-Based Learning Implementation Challenges within Caribbean Universities
Exploring opportunities and challenges of using Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to solve real life issues like flooding, teenage pregnancy, urbanisation, vagrancy, abortion, etc.
Among the many teaching methodologies, Problem-Based Learning offers may opportunities to positively contribute to the solution of real life problems like flooding, teenage pregnancies, crime, violence, etc.
Timeously this book addresses global financial cutbacks and organisational restructuring that demand maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Cutting-edge information on synoptic assessment from this book can address current financial and organisational restructuring issues in a cost effective manner. This book integrates all disciplines so that avera...
Reading excerpt from published book at Bocas Literary Festival in Port of Spain, Trinidad
……hands-on ways of making assessment count in daily life…
Step-by-step, this book tells you how to use your uploaded resources to have a quality fully online course. Contemporary research empirical evidence explains why you can use the suggested practical, tried-and-tested methods. With the help of your instructional designer, you don’t have to be proficient with any Learning Management System (LMS).
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Students often find it extremely difficult to memorise a host of formulae and more importantly to use them in context when required. By identifying a wide variety of different three variable formulae and commenting on their uses, this article seeks to reinforce basic scientific principles and simultaneously make connections using real life, everyda...
Exploring the opportunities and challenges in using Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to solve real life challenges like city overcrowding, flooding, starvation, teenage pregnancy, diseases. etc.
Using contemporary empirical research data, this book takes the stance that purposeful self-regulation actively contributes to promoting deeper learning approaches and generally improves teaching and learning. The underlying aim is to help students become strategic, motivated, and independent learners, capable of controlling themselves by themselve...
...use of Active Learing Strategies to effectively communicate and engage students with varing learning styles, learning preferences and Multiple Intelligences...
Engaging and paradigm shifting in approach, this book argues that disruptive thinking can improve teaching and learning by using easy, doable, practical, hands-on novel strategies. You’ll begin with an unusual, unpopular thought that will cause people to be uncomfortable, backpedal and forget about unpopularity. Each section of this book begins wit...
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
This chapter introduces the reader to the action definition of Self Assessment. It details the nature of Self Assessment its development, some salient factors influencing self assessment. It continues by profiling Self Assessment and discusses its possible measurement. It concludes by exploring differences in Self Assessment...
If you desire to excel at what you do, then this book is for you. This book presents tried-and-tested ways of revision that have been proven to improve teaching and learning. Revision encompasses a myriad of activities like editing, reediting, altering, amending, improving, modifying, reexamining, reviewing, emending, rectifying, redrafting, revisi...
For a listing of UTT workshops facilitated by Professor Dr Betty McDonald, please refer to the following link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17z1rEuo8kJSv2nefM-VeW6NuEzLaG8LOyd3M-hBRh3A
Mentoring is as universal as any other meaningful trusted relationship. Mentoring is needed in just about every discipline: education, health, medicine, aviation, engineering, actuarial science, performing arts, to mention a few. In any good mentoring relationship there are development opportunities for both mentee and mentor. This book assumes tha...
The benefits of remediation are transformative! Remediation allows you to get an edge in your planning efforts and take your progress to the next level. Remediation can promote expansion of intellectual abilities, learner attentiveness, engagement, autonomy, critical thinking and responsibility, to mention a few worthwhile qualities. This book pres...
All teachers desire to have engaged students; students who are attentive, deeply engrossed in their work and willing to stay on task. This book provides you with tried-and-tested, easy-to-use, practical strategies that would enable you to keep your students engaged. The strategies shared are applicable to several other disciplines like languages, s...
...exploring a multiplicity of ways of providing effective and engaging Continuing Professional Development to faculty and staff with varying needs...
Whenever we think about professional development (PD) we often think about groups, and rarely about individuals, despite the fact that groups are made up of individuals. What we experience in a group is not only the sum of the idiosyncrasies of the individuals in the group, but a host of intermingling factors that come into play whenever a group me...
... collaboratively developing guidelines to assist educators faced with challenges in teaching Mathematics …
The ideas presented in this book were drawn from over 45 years in academia, practising across all continents and operating at all levels: early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary. This book aims to equip teachers with the skill sets, competencies and motivation to enable them to function comfortably in differentiated environments. Chapter 1...
…building capacity in the CARICOM region for optimizing Human Resource Development among member states …
This book takes the stance that purposeful reflection contributes to success in teaching and learning. It is by thinking about and questioning how and why we do what we do that reflective practice, together with deferred or ruminative reflection is possible. The process of reflection requires training and practice. Hence, this easy-to-digest book p...
What makes this book ‘different’ from others on the current market is that it devotes itself primarily to addressing performance assessment, although other forms of assessment are mentioned. Instead of having to thumb through volumes of texts on assessment and do elaborate time consuming Internet searches, this book promises to save you much time,...
Professor Dr. Betty McDonald's 34 books
Educators are searching for more authentic ways of assessing learning similar to what occurs in real life situations. Simultaneously, stakeholders are demanding transparency and accountability from educators. This book is therefore timely and seeks to fill that gap by clarifying what authentic assessment is and providing readers with step-by-step l...
This book is a must-have for any teacher who is serious and passionate about success. Using ideas drawn from 45 years in academia, while practising across all continents and operating at all levels: early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary, this book is special. Teachers can get tried-and-tested strategies and techniques that will help them...
The ideas presented in this book are drawn from close to 45 years in academia, practising across all continents and operating at all levels: early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary. Such wealth of experience inevitably presents numerous successes and failures that have both influenced this text. This user friendly book offers tried-and-tes...
No sooner are we faced with the inability to learn than we realize that learning is much more than what we often think about. This user friendly book serves as a guide to teaching learning. It’s all about teaching how to learn. It offers tried-and-tested strategies and techniques that help you to learn and teach how to learn in the most efficient a...
In the real world a lot of activities require people to work in groups. Consciously or unconsciously each member assesses other members using their own predetermined criteria. Recognizing the significance of such assessment this book presents tried and tested ways of peer assessment that provide students with pleasant memorable experiences. Everyda...
In addition to being timely, this book provides you with practical step-by-step guidance in helping you learn and teach for success in the blended learning environment. Whichever learning management system you choose to use (e.g., Blackboard, Canvas, Desire2Learn, Moodle, Sakai, ATutor, Bodington, Claroline, Magnolia, eCollege, etc.) the strategies...
In attempting to determine how Vocational Education and Training prepared learners for the current Labour Market, the study found its genesis. Semi-structured interviews, opinionnairs, academic records and a mailed questionnaire were the survey instruments utilised for data collection. Pertinent criteria (Dependent Variables) examined were: Time ta...
...capacity building and collaborating on ways to enhance teaching and learning through Internationalisation…
... exploring ways in which assessment may be utilised to improve teaching and learning …
Overview
Enduring mathematics is often the experience of many a learner. Enjoying mathematics is the joy of others. Using the flipped classroom, this book seeks to move learners from enduring mathematics to actually enjoying mathematics. Drawing from over 40 years academic experience and using a variety of techniques, this author shares the ups and...
With constantly changing demands at the workforce more than ever students need to be able to respond adequately to present day challenges. Although standardized tests have a place to play in the overall assessment process, they cannot fully measure what a student learned and how that student would be prepared for the world of work. We need a kind o...
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Being anxious about something is pretty normal. Many persons are affected by Mathematics anxiety or feelings of tension that interfere with the manipulation of numbers and the solving of mathematical problems. This disabling condition can manifest itself in ways like profuse sweating, nervousness, intense fear, frustration, helplessness, e...
Everyone has a problem about something that needs to be resolved. With close to 45 years of academic experience and coming from a mathematical background the author has not met a single person who can truthfully claim not ever having a problem. Challenges are everywhere! They occur every day. They are faced by everyone. They become so insurmountabl...
Evidence-based and engagingly written, this book draws from over 40 years academic experience in education. Having written at all levels of the education system the author provides you with strategic, comprehensive, multi-sourced, purpose-driven, down-to-earth tips that are culturally, linguistically, developmentally and individually appropriate. T...
This present paper shows how self assessment (SA) is an integral part of project-based learning (PBL). Defined as the involvement of students in identifying standards and/or criteria to apply to their work and making judgments about the extent to which they have met these criteria and standards, SA seeks to support PBL that has been widely accepted...
With more and more focus on accountability and standards a lot of effort has been placed on assessment at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels, with very little attention to what happens in early childhood. Just like a house needs a sound foundation in order to withstand the test of time, so assessment at early childhood needs your support. C...
Anyone planning to become an entrepreneur would most likely take courses in entrepreneurship if they are available. This book is all about teaching educators how to train their students in entrepreneurship during their normal courses regardless of discipline specificity. Mimicking the traditional education cycle of curriculum, pedagogy, learning an...
Enduring mathematics is often the experience of many a learner. Enjoying mathematics is the joy of others. Using the flipped classroom, this book seeks to move learners from enduring mathematics to actually enjoying mathematics. Drawing from over 40 years academic experience and using a variety of techniques, this author shares the ups and downs of...
Loving Mathematics is all about loving mathematics! This book examines how a love for mathematics can lead to amazing success in several different areas of life. Drawing from over 40 years academic experience, the author discusses how teachers can make a conscious and deliberate effort to create in their students a lifetime love for mathematics. Si...
With more and more focus on accountability and standards, a lot of effort has been placed on assessment at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels, with very little attention given to what happens in early childhood. Just like a house needs a sound foundation in order to withstand the test of time, so assessment at early childhood needs your sup...
Sustainable development is a term that was coined by the Brundtland Commission in 1987 from the World Commission on Environment and Development report entitled ‘Our common future’. Sustainable Development was taken to mean, and I quote, ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet t...
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Preparing and managing any project could be a horrendous task. Workshops are no exceptions! Given the magnitude of the task you can easily get frustrated and give up. Knowing how a workshop can be managed expeditiously would make a world of difference to you. The contents of this book promise to make your task become lighter and more enjoy...
This present paper highlights the independence of self assessment from curricular distinctions and its specific implications for Mathematics and Statistics education. Self assessment (SA) was defined as the involvement of students in identifying standards and/or criteria to apply to their work and making judgements about the extent to which they me...
Overview
Whenever we think about professional development we often think about groups, and rarely about individuals, despite the fact that groups are made up of individuals. What we experience in a group is not only the sum of the idiosyncrasies of the individuals in the group, but a host of intermingling factors that come into play whenever a grou...
You'll know it when you feel it'; 'No pain, no gain'; 'You have to experience it to know about it'. These and many more commonly heard sayings speak to the power of experiential learning. The common theme seems to indicate that regardless of what an individual is told or what that individual learns, it is only when the individual actually has an ex...
CAN SELF ASSESSMENT OPERATE ACROSS ALL CURRICULAR AREAS INCLUDING MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS?
This present paper highlights the independence of self assessment from curricular distinctions and its specific implications for Mathematics and Statistics education. Self assessment (SA) was defined as the involvement of students in identifying standard...
Overview
Preparing and managing any project could be a horrendous task. Workshops are no exceptions! Given the magnitude of the task you can easily get frustrated and give up. Knowing how a workshop can be managed expeditiously would make a world of difference to you. The contents of this book promise to make your task become lighter and more enjoy...
In a world of uncertainty and competition, where do you find help for adult learners? Knowing how to assess adult learning, and report those results on an ongoing basis, is the key to providing adults with a greater sense of direction, purpose, motivation and self confidence. This practical, step-by-step book answers questions such as: • What kinds...
I have not met an educator who enjoys having students regurgitate information without taking the time to internalise the given facts and arrive at their own conclusions after much analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Have you? Everyone wants a winner! All stakeholders see the need for critical thinkers. Most books and websites on critical thinking f...
Is your student her own worst enemy? Is your student her own best friend? What can you do when your student refuses to respond? Can you do for your student what she needs to do for herself? This book answers those questions and many more. It focuses on you getting your student to do her part in the learning process. The author draws information fro...
This ground breaking book provides solace for many a grieving educator or parent who thinks s/he has done just about everything to facilitate and encourage learning and there are no visible signs of success. While it was easy getting some students to apply themselves, it was a nightmare getting others to attempt something worthy of commendation. Ac...
More and more employers are seeking for all rounded employees who are flexible, adaptable, understanding, self motivated, empowered critical thinkers willing to contribute positively to their organizations. This book tells you how faculty professional development can accomplish this purpose. It takes you on an exciting six year journey that allows...
‘There is a time for everything under the sun’ is a well known ecclesiastical saying that stands the test of time. Because human beings are first individuals before they become part of any group, there is a place for individualised teaching and learning. Indeed, human beings are individuals both at birth and death; the beginning and end of earthly...
Portfolios have been regarded as a means of personal self‐expression. This study reports on student real‐life experiences with portfolio assessment. The focus group comprised 150 freshmen (100 females) from a small campus of a tertiary educational institution. For two semesters (approximately 30 weeks), students engaged in numerous activities selec...
Overview
With a constant call for leisure and relaxation to relieve stress, individuals find themselves consciously or unconsciously reflecting on past experiences. This book seeks to present readers with a solid background in current research on reflective assessment and service learning. Readers are thrust into the Problem-Based and Project-Based...
