Teaching

In its marrow, teaching and its apparati—the university to kindergarten—is an endeavor to guide others to discover their own inner gifts and achieve the things they strive for. Sometimes it’s soft-skills, other times it’s an equation or hydrologic software package. And sometimes it’s a big dose of excitement about this living planet, or a cause to care about. Jonathan does not believe that the courses he instructs should be sisyphian tasks nor gauntlets to survive. Ideally the focused time passed in the classroom, lab, or field with student and professor are moments of mutually beneficial growth and synergistic inspiration. His courses are designed to inspire and impart tools needed for students to dig deeper and to search on their own.

Jonathan has worked in Primary, Elementary, Middle School classrooms and has designed and taught 8 different upper-level environmental science classes at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has designed new curriculum for environmental education with the State Parks of North Carolina and continues to seize every opportunity to participate in STEM outreach. Read more under the Teaching Tab.