As an instructor, my goal is to create a welcoming space for students to grow their curiosity and improve their understanding. I have taught courses from introductory classes to the Master's level. These have included classes on a wide variety of topics. While each of these classes can require a different approach, I bring some common principles to any course including incorporating different instructional modalities and types of assessment to provide students with different ways to engage with the material, for me to assess their progress, and to tailor my support for them.
Teaching observation from tenured faculty and student evaluation surveys both positively review my ability to help students draw connections between concepts and real world examples, identify and correct mistakes through my class structure, and to foster a respectful learning environment. I was also awarded the James Weaver Teaching Prize by the AU Economics Department for the 2022-2023 academic year in recognition of the work I put into my classes and this student-centered approach. I can provide my teaching portfolio upon request.
Econ-571: Advanced Macroeconomics
Econ-241: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
Econ-478: Senior Policy Analysis Seminar (Spring 2024)
Econ-100: Macroeconomics (Spring 2023 - Spring 2025)
Econ-150: Economics For Business (Spring 2022 - Fall 2022; Summer 2024)
I also previously was a teaching assistant for a wide range of courses at American University including History of Economic Development, Macroeconomics with Calculus, and an agent-based modeling class called "Growing Artificial Societies".
From 2020 to 2022, I was hired as a teaching assistant to help develop online materials and lesson plans for introductory courses for the AU Economics Department. This included writing and editing sections of an online textbook, creating testing materials, and planning and recording model work problems and group activities for instruction time that could be adopted by faculty or used for asynchronous online classes. Under the supervision of tenured faculty, this gave me hands on experience developing a holistic set of materials and a chance to engage with how we structure courses and instructional time.
In Fall 2022, I also completed a Course Design Institute development program hosted by American University's Center for Teaching, Research and Learning.