My Teaching Services
TEACHING ROLES TO OFFER
- Sessional Professor
- Guest Presenter
- Lecturer
- Workshop Facilitator (see Workshops services)
- Tutor (see Mentoring services)
- Writer-in-Residence
CURRICULUM AREAS*
- The Arts
- Education
- Filmmaking
- Indigenous Peoples
- Media Literacy
- Sociology
- Spiritual Psychology
SKILLS FOR TEACHING
- A passion for lifelong learning, and desire to help others tap into their own potential
- Cross-cultural perspectives for learners, based on numerous personal/professional encounters
- Media literacy concepts and practices suitable across curricula for all ages
- A global view, based upon travels from the Canadian Yukon to Baffin Island, and USA and abroad
- Active listening and transformative pedagogy skills to facilitate group interactions
- Infusing curricula with critical thinking and problem solving activities
- Expertise in oral and written communication skills, to help learners improve their own
TEACHING APPROACH
- Interdisciplinary - practices that show interconnections across fields of knowledge
- Media Literate - concepts and practices to reveal how and why knowledge is constructed
- Experiential - group work in classrooms and field trips with follow up assignments
- Holistic - group activities and assignments to engage intellect, feelings, body and spirit
- Environmentally Grounded - open learners' awareness to interrelationships with planetary life
- Intercultural - deepen awareness about human family and our local/global interconnectedness
- Transformative - ultimately deepen and expand consciousness of each learner
As a lifelong learner, further areas that I continue to study and instill in my teaching include: neuroscience, quantum physics, perennial wisdom, energy medicine, and how storytelling through history relates to psychological insights about the evolution of human consciousness.
*Specific courses under the curriculum areas can be designed in accordance with respective institutions and grade levels.