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My Personal Teaching Philosophy: A Commentary

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Beyond striving to ensure that students learn the fundamental content of the courses, the objectives as any professor should be: (a) to foster critical thinking skills; (b) to facilitate the acquisition of lifelong learning skills; and (c) to prepare students to function as highly skilled and competent communicators across the scope of their career. Furthermore, my overall teaching philosophy is based on two principles, which are supported extensively in the literature, constructivist, and social cognitive theory. Although, Calvin and Hobbes cartoons are meant to be purely entertaining, I have always enjoyed the implicit irony in the interaction between a willful little boy and his sage-like cat. Consequently, as an English professor, I often incorporate this short cartoon into my teaching philosophy, because it embodies the misconceptions regarding college-level writing. Listening to students lament as they struggle with editing essays prompted me to write this commentary. Within c...

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