Teaching

I have been involved in tutoring, lecturing, course development, and coordination, research student advising for over 15 years, with experience at undergraduate and postgraduate student levels (in Australia and overseas). My teaching experience includes economic geology, geology, geochemistry, and mineral exploration, and the use of key software packages in geospatial and data analysis. I was employed as a Teaching Assistant during my MSc. As a lecturer and course facilitator at the Tehran Institute of Technology, I taught various topics including the fundamentals of scientific writing, in both English and Persian. During my Ph.D., I completed the UNSW certificate program Beginning to Teach for Early Career Researchers and Higher Degree Research Students. Also, for more professional geocommunication with the public, I completed the Geologozie Ltd’s course on Practical Geocommunication, recommended by AIG. I have made a solid contribution to modern teaching methods such as interactive lectures, collaborative learning, flipped classroom, problem and project-based, scenario and discussion-based, and Socratic questioning. Although my students learn to do the assignments and projects independently, I teach them how to be good team members using formative and summative assessments, and my designed assessment method, called “Jigsaw Puzzle Projects”. Through these projects, students, as team members, individually do some mini-projects which are parts of the main project. Then as a team, they complete the whole project using their completed mini-projects. They must support each other in case any of them face a problem in the mini-project, otherwise, they cannot complete the main project. Through this, they learn how to be responsible, organized, flexible, and supportive, individually and as a team member. Assessments are based on both mini and main projects. This method actively involves the students to learn better. In general, I can teach introductory/general geology and economic geology, exploration, urban and environmental geochemistry, GIS and mineral prospectivity mapping, plate-tectonic reconstruction, geologic data analysis, geostatistics, computational geosciences, and the relevant software (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, SPSS, ioGAS, CoDa Pack, ENVI, Rockworks, Datamine, Surfer, SGeMS, GSLIB, GPlates, etc.), and the other relevant courses. In IAMG 2023, Trondheim, Norway, with Putra Sadikin, the Product Manager – IMDEX ioGAS, we were going to deliver the short course of “Applied Geochemistry and Analytics” (Cancelled because some of the attendees could not make it in person). 

I was a part of an 11-day workshop in Dec 2022, taught different topics about VMS and orogenic gold mineralization and exploration. This workshop delivered by Harquail School of Earth Sciences’ Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) at Laurentian University, Canada, for geoscientists from all over the world.