Christine Karpinski, Ph.D, RD, CSSD, LDN

philosophy

My overall teaching philosophy focuses on motivating and empowering students to want to learn and to apply what they are learning to their lives and their future profession, regardless of what it may be. I challenge students to think critically, problem solve, and at times make choices that affect the class progression or evaluation process. I try to ensure that all students are successful learners by using several different teaching techniques and forms of evaluations. I believe that these pedagogically varying approaches provide the students with more control over their fate. I design my classes so that each concept builds on the previous concept. I believe reinforcement and progression allows the student to not only retain the information, but it helps them ‘make sense’ of what they are learning. Lastly, I believe my role as an educator goes beyond the classroom, including providing professional educational experiences to students.