I am always experimenting with strategies to allow me to achieve this atmosphere in my courses, including incorporating online components . For further information on my teaching and academic growth, click here . Fairness in examination and grading procedures, effective communication with students, and flexibility are essential to my responsibility to good teaching. Broadly speaking, my teaching goals are focused on making the students' learning experience challenging, interesting and meaningful in a way that generates enthusiasm for the study of history. After all, true education must be a cooperative process between instructor and students and almost as frequently, between students and other students.
Good teaching is also incomplete without learning.
Self-reflection and student feedback has been vital to my growth as an instructor. Student evaluations in particular, have helped me identify both strengths and weakness in my teaching, and my overall effectiveness as an instructor. Click here to see how my courses and instruction have been evaluated by former students. If there is one thing that has resulted from my university sessionaling experiences, it has been the realization that I thoroughly enjoy teaching in the university environment. In terms of my future teaching goals, in the next five years I would like to see myself pursue this passion in a permanent teaching position.