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The accompanying video ( < 5 minutes) is an excerpt from the Data Structures course I taught the summer of 2017 for the USF Computer Science & Engineering Department. The class consisted of roughly 60 sophomore and junior students with a wide range of abilities. Some had work experience, others were in their second or third programming course. It is a foundational course for many software engineering and computer science courses at USF.

The video demonstrates my teaching philosophy in action in four ways:

1) Promoting engagement: coupling instructional periods with short assignments or summary questions (the Socratic method)

2) Gathering feedback from students through Kahoot on the difficulty of exams (among other questions)

3) Affirming/acknowledging active communication (my first response is to a common question asked on Piazza)

4) Evidencing the applicability of the material to real-world situations