Teaching

1.political geograpy (code)PGE8332

Course code

Stage:4th

Classroom:16(20)

No. of Students:25x

My Phiosophy in Teaching

I believe a good university Geographya teacher is someone who can transmit deepinterest in the discipline, and who has the ability to engage students with the material and encourage them to develop their own questions about the past. When I enter the classroom, my aim is not to evaluate whether students can memorize dates and facts, but rather whether they can use factual information to understand historical events and ask questions about their origins and significance. My ultimate goal is to help them develop a critical mind. History is an on-going process and students need to recognize its patterns, its similarities and its differences. I strive to connect the past with the present, promptingthem to understand current events from a historical perspective. One example that immediately strikes contemporary students, given the importance of religious-inspired conflict in today’s world, is the religious wars that occurred in the sixteenth century. Religious violence is not new, nor easily understood, and a close analysis of historical occurrences like the Wars of Religion can offer insights into other times and places.

Much I care to innovate and incorporate sophisticated concepts in a classroom, I believe that learning can and should be fun and that students who are active participants learn much more than those whose participation is largely passive. Teaching and learning involves an inherent contract. Students must agree to take responsibility for their learning in order to engage, and teachers must be willing to be engaged, as well. When students are so engaged, their learning is not solely dependent upon the rate of the delivery of lectures, so a mix and match of pace and teaching strategies designed to meet the needs of a range of learning skills need not be debilitating to the progress of any students.. I believe that scientific researches have a positive feedback to teaching quality. I am encouraging my students to be engaged in researches beside their study to expand their cognitive.