I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis
will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanizedHaim Ginott, Teacher & Child (1972)
Current Course:
- I am not teaching over summer 2015.
Past Courses:
- Spring 2015, Matrices (Math 220), A first course on linear algebra, Sections 1 and 16
- Fall 2014, Matrices (Math 220), Sections 7 and 13
- Spring 2014, Plane Trigonometry (Math 026), Section 1
- Fall 2013, Matrices (Math 220), Sections 4, 17, and 18
- Summer 2013, Matrix Algebra (Math 441), A second course on linear algebra
- Spring 2013, Plane Trigonometry (Math 026), Section 4
- Fall 2012, Matrices (Math 220), Sections 1, 3, and 5
- Spring 2012, Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry (Math 041)
- Fall 2011, Matrices (Math 220), Sections 1, 17, and 19
- Summer 2011, Calculus with Analytic Geometry I (Math 140), Section 1
- Spring 2011, Plane Trigonometry (Math 026), Section 1
- Fall 2010, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Math 251), Section 9
- Summer 2010, Calculus with Analytic Geometry I (Math 140), Section 1
- Spring 2010, College Algebra II (Math 022), Sections 1 and 2
Teaching Awards:
2014 Charles H. Hoover Memorial Award, Department of Mathematics, Penn State
2012 Departmental Graduate Assistant Teaching Award, Penn State
2011 Teaching Associate Certificate, Department of Mathematics, Penn State
Articles:
- What is Teaching?, Paul Halmos
- Doceamus: The Core Ideas in Our Teaching, Gilbert Strang
- The Power of Undergraduate Researchers, Audrey St. John