I teach undergraduate physics at Bard College, spanning the core curriculum, electives in modern theoretical physics, and sometimes non-majors courses (e.g., exploring paradoxes in science and science fiction).
My emphasis is on learning to think like a physicist: to strip a problem down to its essential structure and build a coherent argument from first principles, using both physical intuition and mathematical reasoning. Physics is learned by doing, and my courses emphasize active problem solving - not just applying techniques, but understanding when and why they work. Over time, students develop the ability to move fluently between intuition and calculation, and to recognize the simple ideas underlying complex phenomena.