Academic Center for Excellence in Teaching

Perspectives on Teaching

Develop your perspective by focusing on questions like these.

  • What is the purpose of education?
  • Why do you love teaching?
  • What does it mean to be a good teacher?
  • What is most important about the student / teacher relationship?
  • What makes teaching in the health care professions particularly rewarding?
  • What values are important to you as an educator?

See what Faculty members say about their teaching perspectives.

Faculty recorded their personal reflections UTEC 2009.

Concepcion Barboza Arguello, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Diana A. Beckmann-Mendez, Assistant Professor, Family Nursing Care

Gabriela Brzankalski, Assistant Professor/Clinical, Internal Medicine

Kathleen Buckley, Faculty Associate, Pediatrics

Maria-Jose Cervantes Mendez, Instructor, Pediatric Dentistry

Steven D. Dallas, Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Nella Carol Dornbluth, Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiology

Dana Lucile English, Instructor/Clinical, Dental Hygiene

Denise R. Flinn, Assistant Professor/Clinical, Geriatrics

Rebecca Grizzle, Assistant Professor/Clinical, Chronic Nursing Care

Guy T. Huynh-Ba, Assistant Professor/Research, Periodontics

Cassandra Charis Key, Fellow, Geriatrics

Ashlei Lowery, Chief Resident, Medicine

Christopher McKee, Programmer Analyst III, Multimedia Services

Barbara L. Owens, Assistant Professor/Clinical, Acute Nursing

Babatunde Oyajobi, Associate Professor, Cellular and Structural Biology

Michael G. Palladino, Assistant Professor/ Louis T Bogy DPM Professorship in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, Podiatry

Daniel Perez, Clinical Assistant Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Jesus R. Ramirez, Assistant Professor, Podiatry

Diane H. Solomon, Clinical Associate Professor, Neurology

Rebecca Wright, Assistant Professor/Clinical, Dental Hygiene