I teach at Calvin College, a private Christian college in Grand Rapids, MI, where I am a member of the Department of Mathematics and Statitics. I have taught many specific courses over the near 20 years I have been at Calvin. Mine is not a career distinguished by great academic leadership, nor by a body of scholarship in any field. I have focused primarily on teaching and learning. Students can expect these things from me in courses I teach:
- I will know quite well the course material I am teaching.
- I will provide experiences—readings, classroom activities, classroom instruction, homework—intended to help in the learning of course material.
- I enjoy learning new things and, even in the subject I am teaching, there are questions students can and will generate which we will need to investigate together to learn their answers. I welcome the challenge.
- I may take different approaches to teaching on different days, and I expect student attendance and participation. No approach works for every student. Having some lingering questions isn't so bad if you both view what goes on in class as a conversation starter, and take the initiative to complete the conversation with me later.
Current and recent courses I am teaching at Calvin:
