Teaching

I received a University of Virginia Math Department Graduate Teaching Award for both AY2022-2023 and AY2023-2024.

I was also a facilitator for Teaching as a Graduate Student,  an orientation workshop for all students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Courses for which I have been Instructor of Record

• Calculus 1 (Spring 2024), coordinated, with several opportunities to prepare my own in-class activities.

• Intro to Financial Mathematics (Fall 2022): I created my own assignments, assessments, and lesson plans, with an emphasis on active learning.

• Survey of Calculus 1 (Fall 2021), coordinated.

Courses for which I have been TA

• Survey of Calculus 1 with Algebra (Spring 2021): prepared and graded quizzes, led small group activities.

• Transition to Higher Mathematics (Fall 2020): While assisting with this course taught by Julie Bergner, I gained valuable experience leading a flipped classroom and using specifications-based grading.

Research Mentorship

• I was a mentor for a group of four undergraduates doing research in knot theory, which began during the Summer 2024 UVA Topology REU. 

• In the Summer of 2022 I mentored a group of four students who developed a version of persistent homology to detect symmetry in datasets, also as part of the UVA Topology REU.

• In the Spring of 2022 I mentored Faith Ellis as she completed a Directed Reading Program (DRP) on Seifert surfaces. In the Fall of 2021 I mentored Donovan Cates, whose DRP focused on Wirtinger presentations of knot groups.

Other Professional Development

• I have completed Tier 1 of the Tomorrow's Professors Today program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence at UVA. This involved trainings in inclusive pedagogy, accommodating students with disabilities, teaching in times of crisis, and effectively facilitating groupwork.

• I have completed an online course on Teaching in a World with Generative AI at the University of Virginia.

• In the Fall of 2023 I was selected to attend the Bucknell University Aspiring PUI Faculty Workshop (PUI= primarily undergraduate institution).

• I began learning about inclusive pedagogy and principles of universal design as an undergraduate, when I was working as an Outside Workshop Learning Session Leader and Quantitative Skills Tutor for Oberlin CLEAR.