I believe good teaching involves imagining the type of student who will leave my classroom. When I sit down to develop a syllabus, assignment or even a daily lesson, I think about what my students will be like when the course is done – what they will learn, be able to write and how this course might contribute to an understanding of their life. Therefore, my pedagogy values helping students holistically develop as students and writers (or tutor in the Writing Center). This holistic development of students means several things: 1.) building transferrable writing skills and knowledge they need to be successful in other writing contexts; 2.) developing students’ awareness of how they learn through teaching them about their dispositions towards writing and learning; and 3.) helping students develop as individuals through writing about meaningful topics or engaging in meaningful writing projects. This philosophy has served me well, which is evidenced by the Exemplary Teaching of Language and Literacy Award I won while teaching at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.