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