Mary’s teaching career has spanned 8 years and has taken in both co-education and singlesex schools, including
Habs Girls for 5 years. My specialism is Geography: a continuously changing, fast paced, rigorous subject – one which my energy
matches. I have a keen interest in dialogic learning, whereby students are encouraged to become active, articulate learners, taking responsibility for their engagement within class. Alongside this, I encourage students to broaden their career and extracurricular ambitions: this has included producing student magazines, GIS clubs and outreach programmes. In my personal life, I am mother to two young daughters and together we extend our interests into travelling and exploring the natural world. When chance allows, I engage with podcasts and recommended reads to support my subject. (I can recommend Naomi Klein’s No Logo and Peter Frankopan’s New Silk Roads.)
Mary McCarthy
