Type of professor

President's Professor

Bio summary

I like to focus on questions of why we want students to learn not just what we want them to learn, and consider the best ways to promote learning may not be the easiest, the most comfortable, or most obvious. I have worked very hard ever since to discover the myriad ways in which teaching best “works” and doesn't, through working with my own mentors and then with students, keeping up with educational literature, staying in front of new technologies as much as possible, and rampant pedagogical experimentation. In all this, I always try to “think big.”