About Me

Hello! I'm Maria Meredith.

I have worked in early years and education and with learners from early years to higher education.  I have been in a variety of professional roles including those within a supportive, leadership, advisory and mentoring capacity.  Nowadays, I work mostly as a course leader, lecturer and personal tutor on the Foundation Degree in Education and Learning and the Training, Assessment and Quality Assurance (TAQA) courses at South Gloucestershire and Stroud (SGS) College.  The Foundation Degree is franchised by the University of Gloucestershire.

Here’s a short CV:

2002-04   Learning Support Worker, Uley Primary School

2004-08   Pre-school and After School Club Leader, North Nibley Pre-school

2007-08   Graduate Lead Professional, North Nibley and Uley Pre-schools

2008-09   Pre-school Leader, Treetops Children’s Centre

2009-10   Early Years Professional, Curriculum Lead and Deputy  Manager, Tigger’s Day Nursery

2010-12   Early Years Professional Advisor, Gloucestershire County Council Early Years Network for Quality Improvement

2010-13   Course Leader and Lecturer, Children’s Care Learning and Development and, Course Leader and Lecturer, Foundation Degree in Early Years, SGS College

2012-13   Peer Practitioner, SGS College

2013-14   Occasional Lecturer, University of the West of England

2013-16   Early Years Lecturer, Gloucestershire College

2014-16   Early Years Trainer and Quality Assurance Mentor, Pre-school Learning Alliance

2016-17   Internal Quality Assurer, Work-based Early Years Courses, Gloucestershire College

2014-to date Course Leader, Lecturer and Personal Tutor, Foundation Degree in Education and Learning, SGS College and, Course Leader and Lecturer, TAQA Courses, SGS College

I am also currently a student and loving it.  I am studying MSc Psychology, as a conversion course at the University of Gloucestershire.  I am doing this with a view to further my professional interests in cognitive and educational psychology.  I am also a student on the Lamar University Certificate in Technology Enhanced Teaching.  Doing the latter course has exposed me to a range of digital apps, resources and environments, some of which I have been very excited to be able to use with my students.  My portfolio for the course is a work in progress which I will be sharing on this blog.

I started blogging at the start of 2012, about a volunteer charity project that I facilitate for students and staff at SGS College.  My posts are about fundraising for and working with the Philippine charities that we support, especially what we do during our trips to the Philippines.  You can find a link to that site and the project’s Facebook page here.

Feel free to use any content on this site, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License .

You can contact me through my contact page on this blog, or through my work email: maria.meredith@sgscol.ac.uk.