David Christian: Career development

First of all, Dr. Christian is a remarkable individual. He is able to be an outdoors person as well as an accomplished academic, which can be very challenging to combine. To explain, the paper work and research requirements can be too much to handle at times, and knowing that he is able to mountain bike and work out regularly made me sincerely appreciate his rich, well-rounded character. As a teacher at any university, one bears the responsibility of guidance for sytudents who are just out of adolescence. Some of these students look up to a teacher and think very highly of what they have to say. Thus, I keep in mind to try and accomodate any student who asks for my help in any time and in any way. This leads to an extra level of trust and companionship to the teacher-student relationship. What Dr. Christian presented was activities on how to become a social council for students of all ages, and I am going to apply some of these techniques he shared with us to my class. For example, he presented a timeline in which the students realize their level of fulfillment and happiness according to where they are and what they are doing in each year. This can also be helpful for freshmen to help them cope with the beginning of their college years and its difference from their high school years. So, I am very grateful to him and I am very happy that he's provided me a new way to help out my first year students who struggle emotionally in the first couple of months in college. As an end note, I also appreciate how he sacrificed a couple of minutes of his session's time so that his students would tell us about their recommendations of what to see, eat, or do in Fayetteville. He was a very hospitable person.

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  1. Christina MarreroJuly 31, 2018 at 11:17 AM

    Though I do not understand everything that you refer to as I was not in the session, I do love the fact that you have new activities or parts of lessons, but it is more than that. You have whole new models and techniques to use with a whole group of students that you deem very appropriate and quite helpful. Sometimes it just takes someone else's description of what they do or an anecdote of what they keep in mind for us to learn from what they are doing and fill in the gaps in what we are doing.

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    1. AbdrahmanAugust 4, 2018 at 9:44 PM

      You're absolutely right, Christina. I belive I learn a lot from my students and it is definitley an exchange of knowledge.

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