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I aim to inspire scientific curiosity and the desire to learn through interactive and engaging activities that involve stimulating field trips, student collaboration, and creative science communication.
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Teaching Experience
Instructor - California State University Long Beach
Graduate Student Instructor - University of Michigan
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - University of Arizona
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Teaching Development
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Instructional Design: How to write an e-learning tutorial style quiz to advance scientific computing in your classroom (@EER) - Using/creating online quizzes to help students learn to work with data and code through self-teaching and exploration.
StraboField for Field Camp Workshop - Using StraboSpot apps to collect field data for field classes Visible Geology Teaching Activities and Applications Group: October 2025-present - Using the Visible Geology application to create teaching activities to build 3D visualization and spatial thinking skills. ADVANCEing Field Safety Training Program: October 2024-May 2025 - Asynchronous Online course for building inclusive and safe field teams. Belonging in Field Education Community of Practice: September 2023 - August 2024 - field instructors building the capacity of faculty in the field sciences to share & implement classroom interventions that increase inclusion and equity. Teaching Structural Geology Using Math, Statistics, & Computation: July 2024 - Teaching structure lab using basic vector operations and linear algebra. Ungrading for Equity: Developing Assessment Strategies the Support learning for all Students: July 2023 - Mini-workshop; lead during EER2023 Connecting with the Environment through Nature Journaling: July 2023 - Mini-workshop; lead during EER2023 Building Inclusive, Collegial, and Productive Interdisciplinary Projects and Research Teams: July 2023 - Mini-workshop; lead during EER2023 Building Effective Geoscience Activities for Improved Student Learning with a Teacher Audience in Mind: July 2023 - Mini-workshop; lead during EER2023 Earth Educators Rendezvous (participant): July 2023 - 9th annual workshop and meeting hosted by Pasadena City College and Caltech ASCEND Plus: January-May 2023 - a semester-long professional learning program helping college faculty systematically gather student feedback about their learning experiences to equitably improve social-emotional and academic outcomes Teaching SfM and GNSS Methods to undergraduates in the field: October 2022 - 2-day GSA workshop Early Career Faculty Workshop: June 2022 - multi-day workshop, from NAGT for new faculty. Faculty Learning Program (FLP): September 2021 - April 2022- CSULB community of early career faculty Beach Mentor Program: September-December 2021- CSULB CNSM community UFERN Professional Learning Community: January-October 2021 - community of field instructors using the UFERN framework to design, implement, and assess changes made to undergraduate field experience courses. Research Mentor Training (participant): July 2021 - SCEC 2-day workshop Curiosity to Question: A New Model for Disciplinarily Diverse and Inclusive Course-Based Research Experiences (participant): July 2021 - Mini-workshop; lead during EER2021 Integrating Affective Domain Mini-Lessons Into Introductory Geology Classes (participant): July 2021 - Mini-workshop; lead during EER2021 Vision and Change in the Geosciences: Preparing for the future of Geoscience Education (participant): July 2021 - 3-day workshop lead during EER2021 Earth Educators Rendezvous: EER (participant): July 2021 - 7th annual workshop and meeting (virtual) Quality Matters: Applying the QM Rubric (participant): January-April 2021 - Three-week workshop lead by Quality Matters (opportunity provided by CSULB ATS) UFERN Annual Network Meeting: (participant): March 2021 - 3-day meeting including the mini-workshops: Know Before You Go: Pre-Orientation Program Trailers as an Approach to Support Inclusion by Demystifying Field Experiences CSULB Online Learning Studio (participant): August 2020 - 3-week workshop lead by Academic Technology Services at CSULB Creating Inquiry-Based Labs for Introductory Geology Courses (participant): July 2020 - 2-day workshop lead during EER2020 Earth Educators Rendezvous Virtual (participant): July 2020 - 6th annual workshop and meeting (virtual) Pathways to Scientific Teaching (participant): February 2020 - 2-day workshop lead by Diane Ebert-May hosted by the Postdoc Teaching Opportunities Program at UC Berkeley Adapting Active Learning Strategies in your courses (participant): July 2019 - 2-day workshop lead during EER2019 Earth Educators Rendezvous (participant): July 2019 - 5th annual workshop and meeting hosted by Tennessee State and Vanderbilt Universities Preparing Future Faculty (participant): May 2018 - month-long seminar hosted by the University of Michigan Center for Teaching and Learning |
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Teaching Awards
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Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award: (2018)
Awarded at the annual John & Ruth Dorr Memorial Awards Dinner for innovative and enthusiastic teaching. |