Jess Whitehead - Teaching 

Philosophy of Education:

I am an experiential learner who believes strongly in problem- and inquiry-based learning. I could explain this in terms of academic theory, complete with jargon, but it would fail to describe why I have been passionate about teaching for most of my teenage and adult life. It also doesn’t reflect how my teaching philosophy developed – in reality I learned from my experiences and found out later that there are names and theories of what I do in textbooks. Therefore, to explain my philosophy of teaching and learning, I find it much more instructive to describe what I’ve learned from my experiences.
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Past TA appointments at Penn State - University Park:

  • METEO 003P - Introductory Meteorology (sole instructor)
  • METEO 201 - Introduction to Weather Analysis
  • METEO 445 - Laboratory in Atmospheric Physics I (sole instructor)
  • GEOG 010 - Physical Geography: An Introduction
  • GEOG 482 -  The Nature of Geographic Information (through Penn State World Campus)
  • EARTH 002 - Introduction to the Earth System

Past appointments at Penn State - Altoona:

  • GEOG 020 - Introduction to Human Geography (Lecturer - Part Time)

Awards:

2004 Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award: A university-wide award given to 10 graduate teaching assistants each year.

Last updated 15 May 2008 - jcw

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