Teaching
I am avidly interested in teaching. I use the same research techniques to solve teaching problems that I do to solve geologic problems. I use evidence-based methods in my classrooms and am always striving to find new ways to improve student engagement and learning. See a profile on my teaching at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching website here.
I am particularly interested in the following topics:
- Teaching Outside the Classroom and best practices in mentoring Undergraduate Research
- Improving student scientific literacy
- Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching
- Student Motivation
- Academic Inquiry
- Teaching through Analogs
- Peer to Peer Instruction and Flipped Classrooms
I currently teach the following courses:
EES 1001-02: Observing the Earth
EES 1510: Dynamic Earth: Introduction to Physical Geology
EES 3260: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
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