<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n“i have high expectations of both my students and myself and i have found teaching at vanderbilt to be both inspiring and challenging.\u00a0 i\u2019ve been impressed by my students\u2019 engagement, interest, and creativity.”<\/h4>\n
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most importantly, i try to help students understand how to capitalize on ingredients they are dealt by using teaching methods that motivate and engage students.\u00a0 i have high expectations of both my students and myself and i have found teaching at vanderbilt to be both inspiring and challenging.\u00a0 i\u2019ve been impressed by my students\u2019 engagement, interest, and creativity.\u00a0 i have seen incredible growth in knowledge and in their ability to engage children in the classroom.\u00a0 their projects and comments show they are grasping foundational concepts and excelling in teaching reading and writing. <\/em><\/p>\nlike most of us, i face a challenge in communicating a large amount of course material in a relatively short time. i look forward to exploring ways to most effectively teach this large amount of information while still engaging students during 3 hour long seminar classes.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, amanda goodwin, assistant professor in the department of teaching and learning at peabody college, talks about her teaching philosophy and interests: my main research goal is to improve literacy through better understanding how students can use morphological awareness (or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":8651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107,68],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154035\/jr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}