Teaching

Here is where you can find information about my teaching. In the drop down menus, you can find my teaching history along with courses that are in the planning stages.

Please see my teaching philosophy here.

I have continually received high evaluations and remarks from student reviews. I think it is important for students to enjoy your class. If they enjoy being there, they will engage and engaged students learn the material. My classes are lecture based, but I keep the students engaged by asking frequent questions and by using a high energy style. Here are some student evaluation examples:

  • "Professor Schrank Phillip's class was always pleasant. Thank you for doing well because you were worried about being the first class in our school!! Thank you for always thinking about students first."
  • "It was a good chance to study political science using English. I hope I'll have more chance to talk English especially about social or political issue. I expect there are light debations sometimes at next semester. Thank you!"
  • "It was very difficult to speak English, but thank you very much for your fun. It was hard to spend a lot of time in essay. But it was a good experience to write in English. "
  • "Thank you for one semester. professor, I Would like to join you next semester."
  • "It's true that we speak different languages, which makes it harder to understand than other classes. But it was really good class because professor taught hard to help me understand."

Lecturing in English to students whose English skill is maybe not so good is one of the biggest challenges for me. It is something I continually work on, and when students give constructive criticism, such as when I taught at Korea Military Academy, I try hard to fix those problems. In the first few years teaching at KMA, I recieved common comments such as "He speaks too fast;" or "He goes through too much information:" I took that to heart and worked to slow my rate of speach and rework my lectures so the amount of information I presented was appropriate for ESL students.