My life has been shaped by the educators in it. From an early age, I had admired and looked to my teachers and mentors as pillars of support and guidance. It is with this that I seek to create a similar guiding light in my own teaching.

Academics are actively participating in a discussion regarding pedagogy and what that should look like in this new age of technology, debate, and humanity. I believe that so much of what we learn to be, of whom we learn to become, is created in the classroom. It is with this mentality that I have dictated my teaching philosophy to be one of compassion, interest, and motivation.

The three pillars on which I have determined my teaching to rest have been cultivated by working with both amazing educators and not so amazing educators. There are, of course, those who perhaps best belong in a different environment from education. But it has been through these individuals that I have found whom I don’t want to emulate.