Teaching

This page includes information on my teaching, tutoring, and other instructional experiences. For more information on the courses I have taught, please visit the Penn State Undergraduate Bulletin for course descriptions. For more information on my sections, click the corresponding pages. For students enrolled in these courses, please visit your course page on Canvas.

Teaching Awards

I have been awarded the Charles H. Hoover memorial award (Fall 2022 - Spring 2023) in recognition of outstanding undergraduate teaching by a graduate teaching assistant.

Teaching Certifications

I am working towards the Graduate School Teaching Certificate.

• I completed the Schreyer Institute New Instructor Orientation (Fall 2022).

• I completed the Schreyer Institute Course in College Teaching (Spring 2023).

I am also working towards Teaching Associate status in the Department of Mathematics.

Teaching History

• Summer 2023:

  • MATH 110 (4 credits), Techniques of Calculus I (co-Instructor, 1 section) (merged with another section)

• Spring 2023:

  • MATH 251 (4 credits), Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Instructor, 2 sections)

• Fall 2022:

  • MATH 251 (4 credits), Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Instructor, 2 sections)

Teaching Assistant/Grader History

• Spring 2024:

  • MATH 568 (3 credits), Analytic Number Theory I (Grader, 1 section)

• Fall 2023:

  • MATH 536 (3 credits), Abstract Algebra (Grader, 1 section)

• Summer 2022:

  • MATH 250 (3 credits), Ordinary Differential Equations (Teaching Assistant, 2 sections)

  • MATH 251 (4 credits), Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Teaching Assistant, 1 section)

  • MATH 252 (1 credit), Partial Differential Equations (Teaching Assistant, 1 section)

Tutoring History

• Fall 2019 - Spring 2021:

  • Volunteer Math Tutor at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ

  • Tutor for most undergraduate Math and some undergraduate Statistics courses

• Fall 2018 - Spring 2021:

  • Tutor at Rowan College of South Jersey in Sewell, NJ

  • Tutor for all Math courses and some Spanish courses

Additional Instructional Experiences

• In winter 2023–2024, I organized and implemented an intersession for the first-year math graduate students to help them prepare for the qualifying exam courses.

• In summer 2023, I organized a bootcamp to help incoming math graduate students transition to graduate school at Penn State and to prepare for the qualifying exam courses. I also was the editor for the booklet of materials.

• In winter 2022–23, I designed and organized the abovementioned intersession. I helped prepare materials for functional analysis. I also was the editor for the booklet of materials.

• In summer 2022, I designed and assisted in the implementation of the abovementioned bootcamp. I helped prepare materials and facilitate sessions for logic and abstract algebra. I also was the editor for the booklet of materials.

For more information on the bootcamp and intersession programs, see here.