
Dr. Margaret McColley, Ph.D.
Professional Consultant, Lead Teacher-French Immersion

Dr. McColley ("Professor Maggie") comes to Stargazer with years of experience teaching in various settings. Dr. Maggie McColley has taught children in France and the United States in immersion environments and traveled to Francophone countries in the northern and southern hemispheres. She enjoys task-based teaching and learning, and believes that if children are given a safe and nurturing environment for learning, they grow like plants in a greenhouse. Dr. McColley is the Academic Director of the Alliance Francaise of Tallahassee and has taught in the World Languages Summer program at the Lycee Francais of Chicago. Her degrees are from Rutgers University (B.A.; French and History) and University of Virginia (M.A. and Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies).