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Revising My Teaching Philosophy, Part II
Whereas teaching philosophies generally develop from your experiences as a teacher, my revised teaching philosophy has emerged from my experiences facilitating various professional development activities and working one-on-one with faculty designing, developing, and/or revising their courses. I found myself needing a way to get folks…
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Revising My Teaching Philosophy, Part I
Last January, instead of rereading and revising my teaching philosophy that I wrote while in grad school (really, who has the time?), I decided I would make a Wordle (word cloud) of it and see if I still "jive" with what is emphasized…
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What is the point of scholarly work if not to help others understand and remember it? First and foremost, I am a teacher! It’s my job, my calling, to help others recognize, recall, interpret, exemplify, classify, summarize, infer, compare, and explain themselves and the world around them.
Vonnegut’s comparison of doing and being via famous quotes - priceless!
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