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Teaching

Every teacher has at some point likely heard a variation of the same question: "Aren't you bored by teaching? Eventually, you end up talking about the same thing over and over again." Some people describe their image of teaching as an everyday routine, with the same subject, hardly changing lecture materials, and tiresome test grading. For me, however, this image has much more color. Why? It is because of the students who attend my courses. It is because of the diversity of characters, thoughts, and views that these students bring to the class. This is what makes teaching one of the most exciting, rewarding and challenging experiences of my life.

Teaching Experience

• Lecturer - PH110 (Descriptive Physics), Colorado State University, Spring 2008

  I taught Descriptive Physics course for about 130 non-science majors in Spring Semester 2008. This was a great experience since teaching physics with (almost) no math was both challenge and fun. Check some animations I have prepared for this course!

  Because of the introductory and overview character of this course, I have used Microsoft PowerPoint to prepare all the lectures. Few reduced slides that demonstrate animation capabilities of this program are shown below. Please, feel free to download and use them! You will need Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or higher.

  • Ballistic motion decomposed.
  • Instantaneous speed, or, why Fred got a ticket.
  • Making rainbows step-by-step.
  • Tides on the Earth.

  Some of my students responses to the class (click on the picture to enlarge):

  
  
  
  
  
  

• Substitute Lecturer - PH141 (Physics for Scientists and Engineers), PH452 (Quantum Mechanics), Colorado State University, 2006-2007

  Although being a researcher, I took every opportunity to participate on students' education at CSU. I substituted for several classes in physics majors courses.

• Assistant Lecturer - Electric Circuits Theory, Electromagnetic Field Theory, Slovak University of Technology, 1994-2003

  I have ten years teaching experience at my alma mater (Slovak University of Technology) in both classroom and laboratory. This includes preparation of several solution manuals and online lectures. I was a leading author of the Electric Circuits Theory Online Study Project. During the course of this project we have developed a series of interactive Microsoft Powerpoint lectures that served as a primary study material for part-time students. The project can be found at http://iris.elf.stuba.sk/dist_EO1/ (in Slovak). I was also a leading author of the Set of Problems and Solutions for Electric Circuits Theory I & II that is internally used for the courses at the Department of the Electromagnetic Field Theory.