Case’s Teaching & Advising Endeavors...
“The only original things we ever do are mistakes.”
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When it comes to education, I believe students represent the most important component. All I want to do is offer them the best possible product, coupled with a worthwhile yet cost-effective educational experience to help them become keen Speculators, Observers, Describers, and Analyzers of the world (see my SODA model for more). I chose Academia as a career because I want to help students succeed, and my experience and expertise revolve around doing so. I also work diligently to promote active student engagement, such as co-authoring journal articles, serving as Editor for The Geographical Bulletin, The International Geography Honor Society’s peer-reviewed journal that publishes student research alongside established scholars' work, and supervising student-led/driven research projects.
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View my general Teaching Philosophy
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Check out this student’s blog from my Maymester Field Study Program in Grenada, West Indies (Caribbean)
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Discover my Geography by Rail® Program via one student’s iBook (England & Scotland), or another’s blog (Morocco)
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Search here for evidence of my Teaching Effectiveness (“allen, c”)
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Earning the National Council for Geographic Education's Higher Education Distinguished Teaching award!
Teaching
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My general Philosophy of Academic Advising
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Getting students involved in the academic advising process (an invited article for NACADA )
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The National Academic Advising Association
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Our program won NACADA’s Outstanding Institutional Advising Program award (an international award)
Advising
Ultimately, I remain content that (when) my students (decide to work hard!) produce utterly fantastic results. Like my incredible PhD advisor, I too have been privileged to work with some truly outstanding minds. Whether they successfully garner funding for a research project, publish in a peer-reviewed journal, gain admittance to competitive graduate programs, discover the joy of fieldwork, effectively complete independent research projects, or obtain a solid internship and after-graduation employment, I just want them to succeed and enjoy what they do. So I stand ready to help any way possible. Truly, I live to serve them. It’s what I do. It’s who I am at my core.