Resume

I regularly communicate with my students via e-mail. 

  My personal belief is that an educator needs to maintain a sense of integrity that is observed and understood by his or her students.   I do not compromise on academic standards in order to be popular.  I am demanding of my students, and they know my high expectations after the first day of classes.  Despite this fact, I am humbled by their kind and enthusiastic comments in their evaluations.   Nothing makes me more proud, than when they follow me to different sites, cities or universities to take more than one course with me. 

 One important element of my philosophy of education is to value diversity in its broadest sense. Through my actions –as a role model – and through my lectures, I teach my students about the social, economical, political and multi-cultural environment in which they live, helping them to understand and respect themselves and others.  Also, I greatly respect and respond to students’ different learning styles and try to adequately practice different teaching styles.

Some key elements of my teaching are the emphasis placed on the development of the critical thinking skills of the students cultivating their intellectual and ethical judgment, helping students comprehend and negotiate their relationship to the global world; and preparing them for lives of civic conscientiousness and leadership as citizens who are socially responsible and able to make informed decisions about what is best for our society. I consider that this emphasis is crucial, not only for their success in my science or math courses but for their personal development