Teaching Philosophy

When I was beginning teaching many years ago as a graduate assistant, one of my students came up and said, "it's obvious that you lecture from very well prepared notes. Why don't you just give the notes to your secretary before the semester, have her type them up (remember this was many years ago), and then distribute them to the class. We can all read. Let's just show up for exams." When the best answer I could think of not to do it that way was, "the secretary is too busy" I knew my system was in trouble.

From that incident on, I have been convinced of the need for interactive teaching and learning. In the classes I teach, values are important. Understanding them and molding them for better results cannot be achieved merely by me telling someone how to feel or behave. "Ivory tower eggheads" can really limit change and improvements here. In my classes, what can be known in advance is written and distributed. Class time is devoted to an examination of the shared experiences and insights of not just the professor but also those of the students and their classmates as well. In my classes, it is my belief that I should help to teach and everyone should help to learn.

 

Recurring Teaching Assignments

MAN 6607 Managing International Cultural Differences -Summer, 2003

MAN 6107 Leadership Perspective