I have many students ask me about which classes I teach. In the table below, I highlight my teaching experience for all classes that I’ve taught at Foothill College. I find my job as a teacher challenging, demanding, and exciting. To do this job well, I must invest a huge amount of my time and energy to create an environment that focuses my students on creating significant learning experiences during our time together. With this in mind, I usually say that the first 20 quarters that I teach a class, I expect to be in active design mode. This is where I am actively (re)designing major components of the course. After that point, I still plan to iterative and improve each course. However, after 20 unique quarters of experience, I expect my projects to focus on specialized aspects of course design.

Now that you know a little more about my attitude towards course development, you may be interested to learn that I teach three courses per quarter. Thus, I track two types of data associated with my teaching experience. First, I tally the number of unique quarters I’ve taught a particular class. Before the start of each quarter, I usually invest a large amount of time creating resources for each class that I teach. This process takes a huge investment of my time and thought. When tally my experience teaching each class, I count the number of quarters to track the number of times I’ve been able to invest a significant amount of my energy to update resources. This includes content development for all of the resources that I use in my classroom. To get a small sample of the type of work I produce for each of my classes, click on any of my class webpages in the table below and then follow any of the links provided on that page.

I also count the number of unique sections that I teach for each class. For each section that I teach, I get to know all the students in these sections and run unique quality control survey’s for these students. The section level data indicates how many students I’ve worked with and how many experiences I’ve had guiding learning in each course.

Note: In the table above, the entries that include “+ 1” or “+ 2” indicate that I am currently teaching the corresponding course this quarter. As soon as I complete the course and submit final grades, I’ll execute this arithmetic and re-calculate the final count for each course in the table. Classes that are scheduled for future quarters do not show up in the table above.

In addition to my teaching experience, I find it helpful to track the specific quarters that I teach each course. In the table below, I outline my entire teaching history at Foothill College. In this table, I include links to important class resources associated with the corresponding class. These are intended to help students get a sense of how my classes have changed over time and also provide insights into the student experience in each course.