The standard lecture format
for a class is important in providing students with basic
information, but it needs to be mixed with approaches that involve
the students more directly. In his teaching experience,
Dr. Sun pursues this goal through the use of discussion-style
classroom teaching to
give students an experience of the principles they are studying,
and through students' involvement in professional research. He
thinks that a good
teacher is not an isolated figure at the head of the classroom,
but an active participant in the students' experience with their
field of study.
Dr. Sun is interested in teaching all
introductory level courses, as well as those of advanced levels.
He has taught classes for both physics majors and non-majors.
He has supervised graduate students for their independent study
in Quantum Information and Theoretical Nuclear Physics, and
co-supervised six Ph.D. dissertations.
Dr. D.-H. Feng, the former M. Russell Wehr Professor of Drexel University
and now the Vice President for Research and Graduate Education of the
University of Texas in Dallas, has his comment to Dr. Sun's teaching:
"Dr. Sun always gives clear, succinct and exceedingly well prepared
lectures. It was for this reason that the Physics Department of Drexel
University
invited him to teach undergraduate courses in quantum mechanics and in
electricity and magnetism in 1994.
The attendances in his electricity and
magnetism class were a group of students with very diverse background.
His performance in both courses were absolutely marvelous.
Many students in the introductory course wanted him to teach additional
courses so that they could follow him."