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Having taught both high school and middle school students, teaching secondary education has allowed me to uncover compelling insights about teaching and learning. In college I wanted to be a medical doctor, so I completed a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Psychology.  I went on to finish an M.P.A. in Health Policy; although by then, I realized that clinical practice wasn’t something I was truly passionate about.  My graduate program helped me discover that what I really wanted to pursue is applied medical research and teach post-secondary education.     I thought it would be a good idea to gain teaching experience before starting a Ph.D. program, so I taught high school sports medicine and later middle school life science.  Teaching both high school and middle school secondary education has enabled me to recognize that the age of the student and his or her level of self-directed learning demonstrate a slight relationship.  For example, high school st...

Well, where to begin?  Today, October 23 is actually my brother Josh’s birthday and happens to be the deadline for starting my own blog!  Why the delay?  Well besides being a chronic procrastinator, this is my very first blog!  I never really considered the satisfaction you can derive from blogging because I’ve never been much of a computer person.  This may seem kind of odd for somebody growing up in the age of social media although computers never really appealed to me.  Maybe that’s because I was never really good with computers to begin with.  Neither were my parents.  When I was 16, my mom bought me my very first computer.  A week later it broke so mom took it to Ballios to get repaired.  I remember the technician asking my mom what was wrong with it.  She said, “I think it has a disease ”.  The technician was briefly puzzled but then quickly remarked, “oh you mean it has a virus ”.  I could tell that my mom was emba...