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Teaching Statement (short version)
Teaching Statement (long version)
Community in the classroom matters:
- Knowing everyone’s name
- Facilitating communication between diverse students
- Facilitating exchange of knowledge between students, not just faculty and students
- Safe to ask questions
Predictability in the classroom matters:
- Guided notes provided in advance
- Advance notice on assignments and due dates
- Practice tests
Creativity in the classroom matters:
- Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey in Statistics
- Paper airplanes in Trigonometry
- Lifting weights in College Algebra