Teaching

My approach to teaching has been strongly informed by my experience in the Delta Certificate Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Through the Delta Program, I took courses like "Diversity in the College Classroom" and "Writing Across the Curriculum" and completed an internship in which I developed a set of new classroom activities and evaluated their efficacy.

My pedagogy is guided by the principles of teaching-as-research, learning-through-diversity, and learning communities. These three principles helped me in developing and teaching the courses below. My teaching philosophy is available upon request.

Food Systems, Sustainability, and Climate Change

Co-Instructor and Co-Curriculum Developer, UW-Madison

Co-designed and co-taught an interdisciplinary capstone-style course with professors from Dairy Science, Soil Science, and Urban and Regional Planning
Created a curriculum that strongly emphasized blended learning and a flipped classroom
Led students on visits to different types of dairy farms
Developed a series of preparation activities for a classroom debate on whether the Farm Bill should fund farmers to rear insects for human food consumption (Delta Program internship)
Evaluated the impacts of the classroom debate preparation activities on student learning (Delta Program internship)

Students and I on a field trip to a dairy farm in Wisconsin

Domestic and International Dimensions of Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Development

Co-Instructor and Co-Curriculum Developer, UW-Madison (Charlotte Zieve Teaching Assistantship for service learning)

My students studied whether waste from these crops at the Farley Center could power a biogas system

Co-designed and co-taught a capstone course for upper-division undergraduates with a fellow PhD student
Students worked with the Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability to determine the feasibility of building Wisconsin’s first micro-scale biogas system at the Center with its agricultural residues and food waste
Led students on three weekend field trips to enhance learning
Students gave presentations to the Farley Center mid-semester and at the end of the semester
Students also designed a website for the Wisconsin State Energy Office and a curriculum for high-school students to understand biogas systems

Study Abroad/Service Learning in Uganda

Co-Lead and Co-Developer, UW-Madison and Makerere University (Uganda)

Designed and implemented a two-week service learning trip in Uganda with a fellow PhD student after having applied for and received an Ira and Ineva Wisconsin Idea Baldwin Grant
Five UW-Madison undergraduates and five Ugandan undergraduates lived and worked together on the trip
Students helped build a biogas system at an elementary school and gave three workshops about biogas to different sets of stakeholders
Students participated in cultural and environmental activities
Read about one student's experience here

Some of the students and I on the first day of the Uganda service learning trip

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