I aim to create a student-centered learning environment in the classroom. I understand the significance active learning plays in educating today’s college students, and I use these pedagogies in my classes. I attended the Gulf Coast Summer Institute in Undergraduate Biology Education where I learned valuable active learning strategies and the utility of the scientific teaching method. I have implemented many of these strategies into my course content, and have been expanding the time I devote to these activities because I feel that they really do give students deeper understanding of the subject matter.
University of New Orleans, Department of Biological Sciences
Instructor of Biology
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (BIOS 4314/5314) download syllabus
Human Anatomy and Physiology I (BIOS 1303)
Human Anatomy and Physiology II (BIOS 1313)
Human Biology for Non-Science Majors (BIOS 1053)
Biodiversity for Non-Science Majors (BIOS 1063)
Biology I (BIOS 1083)
Biology II (BIOS 1073)
Tulane University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Visiting Assistant Professor
Diversity of Life (EBIO 1010)
Diversity of Life Laboratory (EBIO 1015)
Global Environmental Change (EBIO 1040)
Vertebrate Biology (EBIO 2250)
Vertebrate Morphology (EBIO 4210/6210)
Vertebrate Morphology Laboratory (EBIO 4211/6211)
Introduction to Ichthyology (EBIO 4280) — Guest lecturer (5 lectures)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Tulane University
Introduction to Ichthyology (EBIO 4280) — Guest lecturer
Introduction to Ichthyology (EEB 4280) — Laboratory instructor
Vertebrate Morphology (EEB 421) — Laboratory instructor
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Ichthyology (BIOL 592) — Guest lecturer (3 lectures and 1 lab)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Ichthyology (EEB 474) — Laboratory instructor
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ
Vertebrate Zoology (BIOL 2130) — Undergraduate teaching assistant