Teaching

I view teaching as a continual act of learning.

In the classroom, student perspectives and questions routinely bring enthusiasm and new ways of thinking about a question and these opportunities to learn together motivate me as a teacher and scholar. The opportunity to learn with and from undergraduates is the primary reason that I am exclusively interested in a career at an institution that prioritizes excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.

My teaching experiences have led me to a teaching philosophy that emphasizes creating a classroom community in which students work together to discover, engage, critique, and generate psychological questions and phenomena.

Courses I have taught:

Grinnell College

• Introductory Psychology (PSY 113)

• Social Development (PSY 295)

• Developmental Psychology with Lab (PSY 233)

• Advanced Developmental Psychology (PSY 332), topic: Peer Relations

Duke University

• Introductory Psychology (PSY 101)

• Research Methods in Psychological Science (PSY 202)

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Courses I have been a Teaching Assistant for:

Duke University

• Introductory Psychology (PSY 101) - Graduate Course Coordinator and Discussion Section Instructor

• Developmental Psychology (PSY 103) - Discussion Section Instructor

• Psychology Statistics (PSY 201) - Lab Instructor

• Social Development (PSY 325)

Additional courses I would be able to teach:

• Other development or lifespan topics, including adolescence and emerging adulthood

• Advanced seminars on Peer Relations/Friendship, Loneliness, Belonging, Academic Engagement, Research in the Classroom

• Introductory Psychology Statistics

Additional Teaching Involvement and Training

The Graduate Mentoring Handbook

Mentoring training is often overlooked in graduate training, so I co-hosted a Graduate Mentoring Exchange event and spearheaded the subsequent writing of a Graduate Student Mentoring Handbook to provide graduate students in our department with access to the collective wisdom of graduate and postdoc mentors from prior years.

Teaching Training

At Duke, I have sought out a number of informal and formal teaching training experiences. In particular, I am completing the Certificate in College Teaching and am a current Preparing Future Faculty Fellow at Duke.

I have also attended and presented at the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology and the Psychology One Conference. A summary of my presentation from the Psychology One Conference is included in Teaching Tips: A Compendium of Conference Presentations on Teaching 2018-2019 from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

Students worked together in my Introductory Psychology course (Summer 2019) to create community norms and guidelines for engagement.