I love science and geology. There is something really cool about understanding how the Earth we live on operates, what it looked like millions of years in the past, and how the landscapes we see today came to be. I also really enjoy sharing this passion with students, and helping them see that geology is relevant to their lives in many ways, whether it be through the mineral resources they depend on, the changing climates they are experiencing, or their daily energy needs. There are also many things that science can tell us about teaching and learning, and empirical evidence supports the efficacy of many classroom teaching practices in promoting student learning. As such, I try to be cognizant of the practices I use in the classroom to maximize student learning and ensure that when students leave my classroom as societal decision makers, they are as geoscience literature as possible.
Below are a list of the courses I have taught as either lead instructor or teaching assistant. Courses for which I have designed lessons or overhauled an entire course to include research based instructional strategies are also listed below. These courses I taught or ones where I assisted another instructor in the redesign process.
Lead Instructor, North Carolina State University
MEA 101 Geology I: Physical (6 semesters, 574 students) • 2015-2018
MEA 202 Geology II: Historical (1 semester, 58 students) • 2016
MEA 599 Regional Geology of North America (Co-led a 15 student fall break course to Northern California) • 2016
MEA 101 Geology I: Physical online (2 semesters, 94 students) • 2013-2015
Teaching Assistant, North Carolina State University
MEA 465 Geologic Field Camp (30 students) • Summer 2017
MEA 450 Introductory Sedimentary Petrology/Stratigraphy (18 students) • 2015
MEA 110 Geology I: Physical Lab (5 semesters, 96 students) • 2012-2015
Laboratory Coordinator, North Carolina State University
MEA 110 Geology I: Physical Lab • 2013-2014
Lesson and Course Design, North Carolina State University
MEA 101 Geology I: Physical
MEA 120 The Dinosaurian World
MEA 202 Geology II: Historical
Teaching Awards
Outstanding Teaching Assistant – National Association of Geoscience Teachers • 2016
Summary Student Evaluations
| Course | Number of sections | Number of student Responses | Overall, the instructor was an effective teacher | Overall, this course was excellent |
| MEA 101 Geology I: Physical | 5 | 424 | 4.4 | 4.1 |
| MEA 110 Geology I: Physical Lab | 8 | 42 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| MEA 202 Geology II: Historical | 1 | 43 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
Scores are mean out of 5.