Teaching
Overview
My goal as a teacher is to create an inclusive learning environment in which every student feels comfortable participating in class and can master and critically assess the course material.
As a PhD student at Boston University (BU), I was a TF for Introductory Microeconomics (head teaching fellow after Fall 2019), Intermediate Macroeconomics, and Intermediate Econometrics. My teaching style was often praised by students in their reviews (see a selection of student reviews), and the Economics Department awarded me the 2020 Gitner Prize for Outstanding Economics Teaching Fellow, an annual award to “the most exemplary teacher of undergraduates within the Department of Economics.” The award was announced in the 2020 department newsletter (page 8).
As a postdoctoral fellow at ECARES, I had no formal teaching obligations, but I volunteered to serve as a teaching fellow (TF) for a master-level course on research methods, and I delivered a lecture on housing inequality as a guest speaker in the research master program in economics at UC Louvain. You can find the slides of that lecture here. Also at ECARES, I have served in several master theses committees as an assessor.
You can read my teaching philosophy for a more detailed description of my views, teaching style, and experience.
Below is a selection of the teaching material I produced during my time at BU.
EC204: Empirical Economics II
Boston University
Summer 2020, Teaching Fellow
My duties in this class involved holding weekly discussion sessions and office hours.
Slides
Do-files
EC202: Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
Boston University
Summer 2020, Teaching Fellow
My duties in this class involved helping students with the material in weekly office hours and grading.
EC101: Introductory Microeconomics Analysis
Boston University
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020, Head Teaching Fellow
Summer 2019, Facilitator (Online course)
Spring 2019, Teaching Fellow
My duties in this class involved holding weekly discussion sessions and office hours. My job as a head teaching fellow involved several additional administrative tasks (e.g., coordinating with other TFs to organize office hours) and the responsibility to cover the class instructor in his absence.
Slides (following Principles of Microeconomics, by N. Gregg Mankiw)