University of Wisconsin Stout | Wisconsin's Polytechnic University

What I teach

You will encounter me in the Marketing and Business Education Program Courses that push you in the concepts/practices about…

• The organization and structure of Marketing and Business Education programs
  
  
• Methods of teaching and learning
  
  
• Evaluation and measurement of learning
  
  
• Principles and practices of teaching in career and technical education (CTE) program areas
  
  
• The Foundations of early child through adolescent level education systems
  
  
• Experiencing your practice in clinical settings including student teaching
  
  
• Advancing and improving your professional practice through graduate courses and research

Technology

I am curious 24/7 about the evolution of mobile computing.  I am always looking for unique and novel solutions to problems and I am especially interested in products that take the unexpected sidestep away from the same-old thinking.  My passion company is Apple and its ability to think different.  I love the way it has been a continuous game changer upsetting and upending everything within its wake.

My Personal Challenge for the semester:

• Play with instructional technology to impact student engagement and learning
• Teach laptop free once per month per course that I teach
• Commit to using my iPhone as my primary computer to present visual content
  
• Learn how to develop a simple iPad Ap that serves an educational purpose
  

My Current Passion

I am deeply passionate about marketing and business practices, economics, understanding human action and reaction.  I believe everything business related is really about the basic principles that are at their core grounded in the basic principles of economics. 

I love cars and the US Automotive Industry.  I am bullish on the resurgence of the US Automotive industry--and it appears I have reason to be.  

I also happen to believe that the US Ag and Industrial Manufacturers are the earliest adaptors of some of the coolest technologies developed to date. 

I believe that if teaching and learning will change in profound ways.  Some basic examples might look like...

• Humans that are on a journey of sampling, experimenting, failing, inventing, innovating, succeeding, and questioning the possibilities.
• The rhetoric of rigor and relevance would become understood to mean relevance precedes rigor and sometimes rigor leads to relevance.
• Teachers and teaching redefined as facilitators of human capacity building.
• Computers and its replacement thought of as a human capacity and curiosity generator.

My Favorites:

• General Motors, specifically Chevrolet
  
  
• Mazda
  
  
• John Deere
  
  
• Case New Holland
  
  
• International Trucks (Navistar)
  
  
• Caterpillar Industrial Equipment

I love coffee.  There simply is not a more interesting service to experience.  Coffee houses just tend to get the customer experience.  They just seem to understand that what I am really craving is smart talk, coffee aroma, and downtime. Which are all enhanced by the great cup of coffee that I so love.

My Favorites:

• Duncan Donuts Coffee, home brewed
  
  
• Legacy Chocolates, Menomonie, WI