Amanda Suzzi - Teaching

Philosophy

Experience

The role of a teacher is to enable their students to develop their maximum human potential. This means guiding the students to new insights and understanding through personal and professional environments. It means facilitating students’ interests, needs, and desires in and out of the classroom setting and challenging students to explore possibilities and opportunities for growth and development in their lives. This can be accomplished if we are willing to identify the growth potential of each student and relate to them as individuals with unique qualities, skills, and abilities.

As a spatial ecologist, I know that the strength of any healthy ecosystem is its diversity. I apply this concept to my classroom, leveraging the diversity of my students to encourage multiple perspectives on course material. While each student has their own set of identities (racial, socio-economic, familial, etc...), I attempt to unite the classroom by encouraging students to formulate a “scientific identity” that can be tapped into both in the classroom and beyond.

I've had the opportunity to teach a number of courses through my academic tenure. Each time I enter the classroom, I look forward to the mutual learning experience ahead.

Summary of overall teaching activity, September 2018 to 2022.

Professor of Conservation Biology, Antioch University New England, Fall 2024 - Summer 2025

Introduction to Research Design [F2F]

Environmental Data Analysis [virtual]

Applied Ecological Principles [virtual, place-based]

Research Strategies - Quantitative [low residency]

Applied GIS capstone

Assistant Professor, Lake Superior State University, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
Introduction to GIS & GPS [F2F]
Quantitative Biology [F2F]
Freshman Seminar [F2F]
Research Project Design [F2F]
Applied Geospatial Technologies (UAVs) [F2F]