Beyond the Classroom

Since my last portfolio, I completed the following trainings:

• ACUE Inclusive Teaching for Equitable Learning (Cohort C, Spring 2023)

• Creating Dynamic Lectures

• Training from the Back of the Room

• Equity Literacy and Leadership Academy (ELLA)

• Open Educational Resources with LIEAL

• Online Assessments and Emerging AI Platforms

• Inspired Teaching Conference

• RSI for Equity and Inclusion

• Strategies for Developing eIntegrity

The following trainings are ongoing:

• Academic Senate Academy

• ACUE Effective Teaching Practices (Cohort F, Fall 23 - Spring 24)

I was elected to be the Earth Science and Astronomy department's academic senate representative.  I attend bimonthly senate meetings and generate meeting reports to present at department meetings.

I attend monthly Academic Senate Academy meetings to learn more about 10+1, committees, task forces, the governance structure, and decision making on campus.  

On October 14, I collaborated on an event celebrating the 2023 partial eclipse.  I offered extra credit for my students to volunteer and I sat in the Ask an Astronomer booth for the event.  

I resurrected an old tradition of watching bad science movies with the students.  The plan is to host monthly bad science fiction movies in the planetarium, featuring Bad Science Bingo with extra credit and prizes.