Category: Week 6 – Authentic Teaching Self

I start this post with a quote from Paulo Freire, in his great Pedagogy of Freedom (thanks Shelli Fowler in your text, for reminding me of him and his outstanding ideas of hope for education). I will also close it with his words. The question about what’s my voice as teacher was so disturbing that […]

Sarah Deel’s “Finding My Teaching Voice discusses Deel’s journey of developing her teaching method. She goes through her experience as a teacher in which she developed her teaching method initially from mimicking teacher she found … Continue reading →

In “Finding my teaching voice”, Sarah Deel narrates her story of teaching, from being thrown into teaching undergrads as a graduate student, to finally accepting her teaching voice, which she considers freeing. I believe her story of teaching and the evolution of her perception of her own teaching is not very different than that of […]

Sarah Deel said that she is “…fascinated by this process of figuring out who I am as a teacher,” which is really encouraging to me because I honestly do not know my teaching voice, so to read that someone who currently is a teacher is still working on this is comforting. I have only ever … Continue reading Still Finding My Voice

In the past few years at Virginia Tech I have been fortunate to be a teaching assistant in a great diversity of classes. I started assisting in the general biology laboratory sessions, in which I presented a short introduction to a topic and then moved to practical component. Then I assisted in a physiology class … Continue reading Me, Myself, and Teaching. →

What is my teaching voice? Well, to be honest, I have no idea! I have never taught, I’ve never even been a TA. I’ve thought a lot about the characteristics and approaches I want to emanate in my teaching, and … Continue reading →

I can remember being so stressed out about what I would wear in high school.  In the mall, bouncing between American Eagle, Aeropostal, and Holister trying to pick out clothes that I saw my “cooler” friends wearing.  However quickly in … Continue reading →

I started teaching from when I was very young and now I am a PhD student. I taught in informal settings and laboratory settings in India to freshman engineering classroom settings in VT. This is my fifth semester teaching in VT. My students’ ages ranged from 4 years to junior year students (pretty amazing). Every … Continue reading Teaching skills: Personalization, being energetic and enthusiastic and clear communication →