Teaching Objective(s)

I am a firm believer in active learning and I think it is extremely crucial that students are allowed/ encouraged to think critically and question information they are exposed to. I think that teaching is not about lecturing to students, but rather about presenting theories, ideas, concepts, and material to students in a fashion that allows them to integrate the information into their own personal life experiences. If students ponder information conceptually as oppose to factually it leads to deeper, clearer understanding of content. In my teaching I specifically design aspects of my instruction to stimulate and inspire these thought processes. In daily instruction I pull information from a variety of resources and deliver information using different teaching methods to accommodate all learners. I strongly believe that concept retention is achieved by delivering information to students from different approaches and using a variety of different techniques. Along with incorporating variety into instruction I also believe in repetition in teaching, the more times a student is exposed to information the more likely he/she is to retain it.