My Philosophy Of Education

                                 

 I love teaching! For me, teaching is more than imparting knowledge. More specifically, I see my role as facilitator. I hope to build on students’ interest in learning for intrinsic reasons, and not just for the reward of good grades. I hope to advance their ability to ask good questions and seek out and analyze evidence, and to expose them to diverse ideas and opinions. To do this, I try to go beyond ‘the lecture’ by creating lessons with opportunities for fun, memorable, and active learning experiences that capitalize on different learning styles. For example, I use games, re-enactments, discussions, case studies, authentic activities, reflective writing, and a variety of technologies. Students have responded well to this approach,  in their feedback they write that they actually learn the material instead of just memorizing it and that I have made the class fun. Outside the classroom, I try to provide opportunities to apply what they have been learning in class to the real world
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