Maria Fotopoulos was once a person who was afraid to communicate with others. For this reason, Fotopoulos is empathetic to people's struggles in feeling comfortable in communicating with others, and works to give them strategies to become better communicators.
Fotopoulos' teaching philosophy is to Create, Inspire, and Succeed.
Create: Fotopoulos creates a positive, supportive climate of safety and non-judgment through the reciprocation of mutual respect, acceptance, and following the Golden Rule in the classroom.
Inspire: Fotopoulos inspires students to reach their full potential by systematically accomplishing the classroom goals and gaining communication skills (through assignments, discussions, projects, and activities) and applying these skills in their everyday lives by taking responsibility of their communication choices to bring about mutual positive outcomes through all communication channels.
Success: Students will be the best they can be and achieve success throughout their lives through an awareness of how they communicate with others, internal locus of control of the value of right communication choices with others, and implementation of these effective communication choices to benefit themselves, other individuals, and society as a whole.
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