Through my past teaching years, I have developed my own teaching philosophy that I call the 4CE philosophy (pronounced "Foresee"). It mainly consists of five tenets:
1- Critical Thinking
2- Coaching/Coordination
3- Continuity
4- Complementarity
5- Ethics
Each one of these tenets plays an important role in the process of learning/tutoring.
In addition, I have developed my own STEM education th...
Through my past teaching years, I have developed my own teaching philosophy that I call the 4CE philosophy (pronounced "Foresee"). It mainly consists of five tenets:
1- Critical Thinking
2- Coaching/Coordination
3- Continuity
4- Complementarity
5- Ethics
Each one of these tenets plays an important role in the process of learning/tutoring.
In addition, I have developed my own STEM education theory, based on my own specialisation of Control Theory. It focuses on an unconventional "engineering signal", the knowledge signal and exploits the continuity feature of the human brain to model learning, assessment, and knowledge delivery as continuous and/or discrete engineering processes. Based on this theory, I have also developed two assessment platforms, the first one is a formative, low-stakes learning/assessment platform, called the Online Tutorial Room (OTR), while the second platform is a summative, high-stakes platform designated as the Repository of Engineering Assessment Pools (REAP).
It is interesting to note that one of the first preliminary outcomes of the above-mentioned theory points to the good-old message sent to us hundreds of years ago by non other than Edison, when he noted that "genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration", practically reinforcing the age-old saying of "practice makes perfect" :-)