The New School is my main source to build my teaching philosophy. The New School considers the classroom as a participatory and democratic scenario. Consequently, first, I teach focus on personal values, self-management of learning, and personal growth as continuous process. Second, I encourage team work because the construction of a learning community creates innovative neurocognitive appropriations of information. Third, I promote experiential learning, respect students’ own learning pace, motivate and encourage them to learn with energy never using grades as a punishment.

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I consider that learning is a process of substantive knowledge and skills construction. During my four years as a professor, I understood that my teaching purpose is to build a democratic approach to knowledge. It is not only about teaching concepts and theories, it is also about providing tools and skills for students to develop their own capacities, competencies and knowledge. I learnt to implement techniques to foster motivation, socialization, information exchange, construction, and development of knowledge between both the students and the instructor. 

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Socialization and the construction of learning skills are developed in my classes through a critical perspective of the social, political, and economic sources that influence law making. Therefore, my classes aim at fostering the understanding of how legal theories and institutions apply to the current context. In the classroom, students have the opportunity of evaluating different legal sources by contrasting their application to the national and subnational context. I also encourage students to do legal research as their personal projects to enhance their personal interpretation of the law-making process and its applications.

My teaching goals are to enhance the acquisition of knowledge and skills to interpret and to apply the law. I facilitate learning in my classes through the resolution of cases and provision of legal advice in the classroom setting. Students have the opportunity to develop hermeneutic competences, debate and support a personal interpretation of the law through the application of concepts and theories.

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