Teaching
As a requirement for the final semester of my Master’s in STEM Teaching program at FSU, in the Spring 2024 semester I have been instructor of record for a section of the second semester Bio intro course for majors. I am responsible for course decision-making and design, developing lessons and assessments (with guidance of other faculty) and creating materials, teaching interactive lessons and facilitating activities together with an instructional team of learning assistants who I supervised, and grading and assigning final grades.
Classes I've TAed for:
(Florida State University) PCB 4674/5672 Evolution, Summer 2024 (a compressed-schedule six-week lecture class; I graded assignments, held office hours, and helped facilitate in-class activities)
(Florida State University) BSC 2011 Biological Science II, Summer 2023 (a lecture class; I graded assignments, held office hours, and developed and delivered lessons on population ecology)
(Florida State University) BSC 3016 Eukaryotic Diversity, Spring 2023 (a lecture class; I graded assignments, held office hours, and developed and delivered a lesson on ray-finned fishes)
(Florida State University) ZOO3141L Animal Diversity Lab, Fall 2020 (led labs and graded lab assignments, all on Zoom) – Nominated for Florida State University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
(Florida State University) BSC 2011L Biological Science II Lab, Fall 2019-Spring 2020 (led labs and graded lab assignments) and Summer 2022 (led TA training and lesson materials review)
(The University of Chicago) STAT 222 Linear Models and Experimental Design, Spring 2019 (graded assignments)
(The University of Chicago) BIOS 10130 Core Biology, Fall 2017 and Fall-Winter 2018-19 (1 quarter as writing TA and 2 quarters as lab+lecture TA. Graded and advised on assignments, graded exams, led labs including multi-week COI barcoding investigation of urban ecology with DNA Learning Center curricula, held review sessions)
I have also been a research assistant supervisor for 6 students in Florida State University's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), and 4 students in FSU's free Young Scholars Program for Florida high school students, all of whom I worked with to do original research and develop research posters. For this work, I was nominated in 2023 for the Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement Graduate Student Mentor Award.