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 Pete Giordano On teaching focus: "My original intent was to pursue the clinical field, but I fell in love with teaching in graduate school. My mentor suggested I 'test the waters' at a university that emphasized teaching. That brought me to Belmont -- and I never left. Consciously paying attention to how we can help students learn is not lip-service here, it saturates the culture. To put it simply, teaching comes first. Sure, we do research, but we do it alongside students and look at it as another teaching method." On the Teaching Center: "The fact that Belmont has a Teaching Center says a lot about how teaching is valued on this campus. It is designed to help really good teachers become even better. This is a faculty that talks and collaborates, constantly works on teaching. We all know you can't fool students. They know when the energy, the vitality, is there." |
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