Teaching

Teaching Statement

It is important to me as an educator to facilitate my students to think critically about the problems that they face throughout my course. Theater has such a rich history of invention and innovation that it is important my students have an understanding of that history. By providing them with this base foundation and then using interactive projects, I seek to drive creative use of this knowledge to spur innovation.

To engage my students to think critically within my classes I seek to provide knowledge with not only the what of the subject but the why as well. Whenever possible it is important that the reasons why, whether it is the reason we use close eye bolts when lifting, or why a 2×4 isn’t really 2” x 4”, the why is at the forefront of the conversation. This helps to catalogue the knowledge in a way that it can be used for creative or innovative endeavors.