About
YURI TRICYS
FULL STACK WEB DEVELOPMENT | RESEARCH | TECHNICAL WRITING | DATA SCIENCE | INSTRUCTION
Yuri is a professional freelance web-technology consultant with 11 years experience working with JavaScript, PHP, and WordPress. In the past, he worked professionally as a consultant in a private and public sector facing consultancy on multi-national high-level projects. More recently he's worked on Hugo websites for 7 years, custom HTML emails for 4 years, and React and NextJS for 1 year. In 2023 he wrote JavaScript courses for one of America's fastest growing technology education startups.
He's currently pursuing the Provincial Instructor's Diploma Program, in British Columbia Canada, while developing the Reading World Magazine news aggregator.
Reflect on your professional identify:
I don’t consider myself a maverick or a dreamer. I’ve just followed the pathways that were open to me, and a natural instinct to study and understand.
What are the personal and professional values that guide you as an instructor?
I’m driven by a natural passion for the material I like to teach. I want to share that excitement with students. I understand now that students are not naturally excited by the same material that excites me. My job then is to make the material as exciting as possible. That is the biggest challenge I’m embracing, because I’ve always felt people should do what excites them, and I prefer to teach people who were already excited about the material.
Having said that, practice and this coursework have revealed new ways of teaching that make being exciting more exciting, so it’s an interesting time.
What are a few of your own truths of teaching?
- I am driven by endless possibilities. I do not think in terms of limitations. I want my students to feel they can achieve anything they put their minds to.
- I relish detail, and I'm learning not to put too many of those on others.
- I'm quite convinced that mastery through challenge is one of life's most rewarding experiences; however, but I tend not to want to overload students. I want them to overload themselves, voluntarily.
- It's important I consider how difficult the material I teach is, because not many students are likely to work as hard as I would on any given task.