Tom Baker

 

My philosophy in teaching is centered around creating a safe, welcoming, and fun learning community where students feel encouraged to take intellectual risks, challenge ideas critically, and seek well-informed conclusions; helping them navigate today’s information-rich world with not only rigor, but empathy and understanding. Our learners don’t need be to told what to think, I believe they need to learn how to think so they can decipher the near-infinite content competing for their attention. My hope is learners become critically engaged and thoughtful members of society, consciously making decisions that will lead them to a life of fulfillment and compassion, with the grit to pursue any goal that they set their sights on while embracing any failure and challenges that may come their way.