Pedagogy

When we take an inquisitive approach toward our classroom strategies and pedagogies, we develop a growth mindset that enhances our teaching practice in new and novel ways. Shaping an academic course with inquisitive intention has benefited my teaching practice in three significant areas: imagination + experimentation + discovery.

By seeing a course as a blank canvas for unhindered provocations of the imagination, I am pushed to think more daringly about curriculum design.
By analyzing the impact of curriculum design on student learning, I am emboldened to experiment purposefully with innovative pedagogies.
By disseminating insights from my foray with innovative pedagogies, I aim to illuminate how course experimentations can produce new discoveries and advance the frontier of education.

More fundamentally, by embracing a beginner’s curiosity toward understanding the metacognitive dimensions of my teaching practice, I am able to find a renewed enthusiasm for the classroom and a reinvigorated passion for my disciplinary field. And, ultimately, sharing this creative energy with my students engenders a two-way conversation to explore what teaching and learning signify for us, individually and collectively.

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I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of British Columbia. These courses are offered by the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) as part of a dynamic suite that exposes students to various perspectives and approaches toward understanding our urbanizing world.

To learn more about the courses that I have taught, please click on the poster images below.

PLAN 548Q Futures Planning

Special thanks to the inaugural cohort of PLAN548Q (2020 Summer Term 1) for bravely enrolling in this experimental course (which, moreover, was designed and delivered for 100% web-oriented modality during the COVID-19 pandemic). I also wish to thank the inaugural cohort for their generosity in allowing me to publicly share our class ‘Digital Daily Log’ >> click here. It would be both humbling and rewarding if the insights from our experience have the potential to intrigue, inform, and inspire!