Trent Professor Inspires Students to be Hopeful Visionaries
Honouring the tremendous responsibility and privilege of being a teacher, Dan Longboat helps students develop broader, richer and deeper understandings of the beautiful intricacies of the world around them and their connections to, relationships with, and responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and the environment.
Professor Longboat draws his inspiration from traditional teachings and strongly believes in teaching the entire student by really engaging them in a transformational way. With the many issues that his teachings touch upon, including topics such as environmental and climate change and multiple knowledge systems, Longboat relays the information to students in such a way that connections are made between the things they are learning as well as how they feel about them – in other words connecting their mind and their heart.
“To be a teacher means that you’re providing for somebody the opportunity to carry with them, the rest of their life, something that you have given them, a knowledge that you’ve given them, a understanding that you’ve given them, a feeling that you’ve given to them.”
“I want to be the kind of teacher that when students get to be old men and old women, they get to be 80, 90, 100 years old, they look back at me and this school here, and look back at Trent University and the time that they have here, and they look back and say ‘Dan Longboat, that was my teacher.’ That’s the greatest privilege and the greatest honour you can have in being a teacher.”
Inspiring and passionate, Dan Longboat truly exemplifies the type of teaching Trent is renowned for, and which the Centre for Teaching and Learning is proud to showcase. To hear more from Dan Longboat, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ti-E69_K8
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