TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

• The learning process requires ample opportunities for active participation and practice.
• To keep students interested and motivated the information disseminated must be clear and meaningful.
• Teaching, unlike other professions, has no secrets. All my notes, handouts, and references are made available to students both in hard copy and electronic formats.
• Good teaching is an acquired skill, thus it needs to be evaluated and updated on a regular basis. An effective teacher learns as much as he/she can about her/his students--their interests, motivations, troubles, and triumphs.
• Technology should be applied in unique and specific ways rather than used as a fancy duplication of conventional materials. Nevertheless, partial duplication of conventional course material using technology is needed to facilitate the transition from the "Old" to the "New Information Age."

"...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be??...We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.