Joshua L. Rogers

Teaching Philosophy Summary (Full Text)

My goal when teaching is to ensure that my students have mastered the subject matter and that I have fostered curiosity, self-reliance, and professionalism. Every student is unique and requires instruction tailored to their level of experience, interest, capability, and personal motivations. It is a practical impossibility to teach all there is to know, nor would this be an efficient approach to teaching. Rather, it is far more effective to transform students into life-long learners and help them discover their own powerful capacity to teach themselves through practical application and independent study. In my experience, many students can, and want to, become life-long learners. On the other hand, some few students choose to shun self-actualization, preferring to drift through life, from crisis to crisis, bemoaning their lot, despite the best efforts of their mentors to empower them. Regardless of this fact, I strive to be a beneficial factor, a mentor, in ALL my students’ lives.

Education (Vitae)

B.A.S. Information Technology, 2019 magna cum laude
Lewis-Clark State College

A.A.S. Information Technology, 2019
Lewis-Clark State College

B.A.S. Applied Technology, 2018 magna cum laude
Lewis-Clark State College

B.S. Computer Science, 2015 magna cum laude
Minor: History
Lewis-Clark State College

A.A. Liberal Arts: Natural Sciences and Mathematics, 2015
Lewis-Clark State College

A.A. Liberal Arts: Social Sciences, 2015
Lewis-Clark State College

A.A.S. Information Systems Analysis, 2012
Lewis-Clark State College

A.A. Liberal Arts, 2010
Lewis-Clark State College

Certification

Standard Occupational Specialist, 2020 Expected
Idaho Career & Technical Education

CompTIA A+ ce (ISO/ANSI Accredited), 2019 to Present
CompTIA

Limited Occupational Specialist, 2017 to Present
Idaho Career & Technical Education

CRLA Master Tutor, 2015 to Present
College Reading and Learning Association