Professor Rick Glofcheski

Rick is committed to a learner-centred approach to teaching and learning. He believes that good teaching should provide means by which students are able to connect their learning with the world around them, so that their learning will continue beyond examinations and after graduation. It is crucial to understand students’ learning needs, learning approaches and difficulties, taking into account the increasingly diverse student body coming from different learning backgrounds and traditions. It is also important to convey to students the learning outcomes of the courses they take and to ensure that the learning outcomes connect to the learning activities and the assessment, so that the course learning plan is coherent and credible and will be accepted by students. To achieve active and engaged learning, Rick tries to remember the names of his students and accommodate their different learning styles and personalities, and he turns the classroom into an open forum for discussion and debate among students and between students and teacher.