My teaching philosophy emphasizes diversity, empathy, and community-making. I invite students to not only share their own experiences, but envision what it would be like to either not have had access to what they did, or have access to other resources that could have changed their experiences. In every class I teach, I draw attention to privileges that we may have in our various seen and unseen identities. I also find ways to provide students with experiential learning by partnering with community organizations or role-playing as decision-makers. This helps structure hands-on learning for students.
Courses I've taught in:
Environment and Society
Human Rights and Water Resource Management
The Environment, Intersectionality and Science Fiction
Courses I'm prepared to teach:
Along with Environment and Society and Water and Human Rights, I am prepared to teach survey courses on Race, Space and the Environment; Urban Ecology; Qualitative Methodology; and Environmental Justice. I am also prepared to teach more specialized, upper-level courses on Environmental Racism; Unnatural Disasters: Environment, Disasters, and Capitalism; and Qualitative Inquiry/Methodology. Sample syllabi are available upon request.
Teaching Practices:
Small group discussions
Think, pair, share
In-class Photovoice activities
Role-playing activities
Group Final projects
Semester-long research projects with monitored deadlines
Additional Trainings:
Social Justice Syllabus-making (2018)
Future Faculty Fellowship Program (2017)
Engaged Experiential Education: To Enhance Student Learning and Support Communities (2017)