Teaching Statement

Sharing ideas is probably the biggest role of a university and spans from reaching the media and government to sharing ideas at conferences to writing papers to facilitating students' acquisition of knowledge and skills. Teaching means different things for different students. For the students who thirst for knowledge it's to give them organized facts and skills that they can remember. For students who want skills for a job, it's providing those tools and the knowledge for their workplace. For students who want to better their lives and others, it means giving them wide background to experiences and disciplines to draw from. For students who are not motivated, facilitating the acquisition of knowledge means trying to inspire and motivate them as much as possible.

The teaching statement below describes my opinion on what learning is, some of my teaching goals, methodologies, courses of interest and professional development plans.

Teaching Statement