Profile for Megan Litster

Teaching to me is a collaborative effort.  Not just between faculty, but between faculty and the students in their classes. Learning doesn't occur in isolation.  If you think about all the things you have learned throughout you life (learning to walk, learning to talk, learning to play a video game, or a musical instrument, etc...) the vast majority of them have occurred with others.  It is for this reason I consider myself a social constructivist.  This theory of learning really takes the philosophy that we are smarter as a group than we are as an individual. I embed this into the learning environment in my classroom.  Depending on which class you take from me, you will see various levels of student centered engagement.