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BACKGROUND OF GLEN GRAHAM
For those of you who do not know me, here is a snapshot of my background:
I earned an A.S. degree in Electronics Technology from Riverside Community College (RCC), and another A.S. degree in Computer-Electronic Systems from Norco College. I was a senior at Cal Poly, Pomona, studying toward a B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology (BSEET) while I worked as an Electronics Design Engineer for General Dynamics and was deployed to Washington, D.C. for several years. While at Cal Poly, I started teaching Electronics Engineering Technology for the Riverside City College District (RCCD)--the specialty area that I have taught at RCCD ever since then. I have now taught in five different community college districts. I earned a B.A. in Career & Technical Studies (BACTS) from California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB), and am about to complete my final course-work toward my M.A. in Instructional Technology at CSUSB. I am the full-time, lead-faculty for Electronics, Electrician training, the Green Technician program, Supply Chain & Industrial Automation, and Photonics programs at my Inland Empire community college. I have been chosen to be the Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in Photonics education, research, and technology-transfer. I have been happily married for two decades, am retired from engineering, and working toward my second retirement in the teaching field. After a second retirement, my wife and I will work for ourselves in engineering design consulting and new product development, as well as offering corporate training to clients. I have two beautiful daughters and four delightful grand-children.
For those of you who do not know me, here is a snapshot of my background:
I earned an A.S. degree in Electronics Technology from Riverside Community College (RCC), and another A.S. degree in Computer-Electronic Systems from Norco College. I was a senior at Cal Poly, Pomona, studying toward a B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology (BSEET) while I worked as an Electronics Design Engineer for General Dynamics and was deployed to Washington, D.C. for several years. While at Cal Poly, I started teaching Electronics Engineering Technology for the Riverside City College District (RCCD)--the specialty area that I have taught at RCCD ever since then. I have now taught in five different community college districts. I earned a B.A. in Career & Technical Studies (BACTS) from California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB), and am about to complete my final course-work toward my M.A. in Instructional Technology at CSUSB. I am the full-time, lead-faculty for Electronics, Electrician training, the Green Technician program, Supply Chain & Industrial Automation, and Photonics programs at my Inland Empire community college. I have been chosen to be the Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in Photonics education, research, and technology-transfer. I have been happily married for two decades, am retired from engineering, and working toward my second retirement in the teaching field. After a second retirement, my wife and I will work for ourselves in engineering design consulting and new product development, as well as offering corporate training to clients. I have two beautiful daughters and four delightful grand-children.
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TEACHING PHILOSOPHY OF GLEN GRAHAM
As a former Electronics Design Engineer, I thoroughly enjoyed the creative processes, problem solving, and human interactions necessary to bring products to market. Now, when I teach, I enjoy the same levels of creativity, and challenge, through building up my scholars, in a community of inquiry, where synergies expand to magnify the abilities of our members. It is every bit as fulfilling for me to encourage a scholar who can create, as it is to engineer the design of a new product. In fact, I see myself multiplying my own abilities in my many students. I give to my Career and Technical Education (CTE) scholars the gift of enlightenment that was previously bestowed upon me by the great teachers who nurtured my own creative talents over the past decades. I am rewarded again every time students return, to invite me to their graduations, or to tell me how significantly I changed their lives for the better through my courses.
I employ the constructivist learning theory while I also implement cognitivism into my teaching. Both theories believe in having the learners perform problem-solving and use critical thinking. The students collect information to use when needed. Whereas, the constructivist learners are more involved in their learning. They want to participate via projects and activities rather than from the formal lecture style. These people will add to or subtract from the knowledge base they create to develop a solution for the problem at hand. So, both theories apply to the CTE students that I teach.
I enjoy the perspectives of my many students from diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances. Our differences enrich us by helping us to see the situations, often from radically different viewpoints, which we might not have experienced if we all had come from similar environments and backgrounds—they generate new ideas. My disabled scholars have taught me respect for those who persevere and overcome their challenges. They inspire me, as do my English Language Learners, who end up being multi-lingual. Regardless of the circumstances, I try to reach each of my students where they are. I am here to edify my scholars in many of the same ways I have been reached by the many educators who enriched my life.
As a former Electronics Design Engineer, I thoroughly enjoyed the creative processes, problem solving, and human interactions necessary to bring products to market. Now, when I teach, I enjoy the same levels of creativity, and challenge, through building up my scholars, in a community of inquiry, where synergies expand to magnify the abilities of our members. It is every bit as fulfilling for me to encourage a scholar who can create, as it is to engineer the design of a new product. In fact, I see myself multiplying my own abilities in my many students. I give to my Career and Technical Education (CTE) scholars the gift of enlightenment that was previously bestowed upon me by the great teachers who nurtured my own creative talents over the past decades. I am rewarded again every time students return, to invite me to their graduations, or to tell me how significantly I changed their lives for the better through my courses.
I employ the constructivist learning theory while I also implement cognitivism into my teaching. Both theories believe in having the learners perform problem-solving and use critical thinking. The students collect information to use when needed. Whereas, the constructivist learners are more involved in their learning. They want to participate via projects and activities rather than from the formal lecture style. These people will add to or subtract from the knowledge base they create to develop a solution for the problem at hand. So, both theories apply to the CTE students that I teach.
I enjoy the perspectives of my many students from diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances. Our differences enrich us by helping us to see the situations, often from radically different viewpoints, which we might not have experienced if we all had come from similar environments and backgrounds—they generate new ideas. My disabled scholars have taught me respect for those who persevere and overcome their challenges. They inspire me, as do my English Language Learners, who end up being multi-lingual. Regardless of the circumstances, I try to reach each of my students where they are. I am here to edify my scholars in many of the same ways I have been reached by the many educators who enriched my life.
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REFLECTION
Having once been trained by educators to design printed circuit boards and elaborate electronic systems, I am now an educator who trains scholars to become Electronics Engineers who design printed circuit boards. I have come full-circle, and am fulfilled.
Having once been trained by educators to design printed circuit boards and elaborate electronic systems, I am now an educator who trains scholars to become Electronics Engineers who design printed circuit boards. I have come full-circle, and am fulfilled.
Reference
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