Teaching Philosophy
I became a teacher because I believe education is the most lasting vehicle for positive social change. In a world where information is instantly accessible, teachers have a heightened responsibility to demonstrate how to carefully and critically translate facts into meaningful stories, useful opinions, and constructive understandings as the essential foundation for our democratic civic culture. I strive to be a motivating force in my students’ lives facilitating their exploration of the world, both past and present, in order to help them become thoughtful and compassionate global thinkers.
My teaching interests include revolutions in a global context, environmental policy and popular protest, and conceptions of poverty and development. In addition to surveys of World History, I teach a history of Mexico, a two part series on Latin American history, and Global Environmental History. In the past I have led a first-year course that examines environmental approaches to international development and capstone seminars on comparative social revolutions in the twentieth century and the “culture of poverty” in Mexico.
“You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards."
Steve Jobs
I became a teacher because I believe education is the most lasting vehicle for positive social change. In a world where information is instantly accessible, teachers have a heightened responsibility to demonstrate how to carefully and critically translate facts into meaningful stories, useful opinions, and constructive understandings as the essential foundation for our democratic civic culture. I strive to be a motivating force in my students’ lives facilitating their exploration of the world, both past and present, in order to help them become thoughtful and compassionate global thinkers.
My teaching interests include revolutions in a global context, environmental policy and popular protest, and conceptions of poverty and development. In addition to surveys of World History, I teach a history of Mexico, a two part series on Latin American history, and Global Environmental History. In the past I have led a first-year course that examines environmental approaches to international development and capstone seminars on comparative social revolutions in the twentieth century and the “culture of poverty” in Mexico.
“You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards."
Steve Jobs