After extensive teaching experience in all grade levels, including special education, and her doctoral studies at Northwestern University, Dr. Bernice McCarthy developed an instructional model to connect all types of learners.

She was convinced that the diversity of learners called for an all encompassing learning cycle.

Bernice McCarthy drew on the research of Jung, Paiget, Vygotsky, Dewey, Lewin and Kolb to create an instructional system that would progress through the complete learning cycle using strategies that would appeal to all learners.

This innovative approach, the 4MAT System, was the basis for the founding of her company, About Learning, Inc. in 1979.

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