Kathleen Phillips Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Division Chair for the Humanities
1.The only difference between my students and me is time
2. In my classes, my students will not learn what to think but how to think
3. Every class has its own unique dynamics and I must approach each accordingly
4. I always try to harness my students' intellectual curiosity, engage their critical thinking and creative capacity, and involve them actively in their own education
5. My pedagogical strategies must be as diverse as the learning styles and cultural identities of my students
6. I believe in keeping my teaching fresh by incorporating new content, the most recent sources, theories, methodologies, interpretations, and technologies, and teaching strategies into my classes lest I bore not only my students but myself
7. I try to never lose touch with my humanity nor that of my students
8. I always make it a point of letting my scholarship inform my teaching
9. I try to cater for 15-minute attention spans when structuring my lesson plans
10. In order to be truly successful as a teacher, I know I must make myself increasingly dispensable by redirecting the focus from myself to my students