Teaching
It is important to me that I am well-prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate students in the classroom as well as to mentor students I work with and supervise in the lab setting. In my career, I've sought out as many opportunities as possible to develop my teaching and mentoring acumen alongside my research program, including completing a graduate certificate in college teaching during my PhD. I have many years of experience guest lecturing, TA'ing, and leading methodological workshops in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and (more recently) computational neuroscience.
Teaching Philosophy
Because of my research background in psychology and neuroscience, I am privileged to approach teaching with some background knowledge of how our brains learn. This point of view is reflected in my Teaching Philosophy, which discusses how I leverage this knowledge to help the students I teach become better learners.
Teaching Tools & Resources
In the course of teaching, mentoring, and completing the curriculum for the University of Iowa's Graduate Certificate in College Teaching, I've created numerous teaching tools, materials, and resources over the years. Several examples are included below.
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Slides and example code from EEG course guest lecture:
During my teaching practicum in the Analyzing Neural Field Potentials graduate course taught by Dr. Jan Wessel, I gave a guest lecture on non-oscillatory time-frequency signatures. I also recorded pre-course MATLAB introduction videos to help get students specifically within that course up to speed on basic MATLAB programming principles.
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Slides from the First-Generation Student Human Brain Workshop:
In the first two years it was held, I had the privilege of leading the practical demonstration section of EEG day for the 1st Generation Student Human Brain Workshop (https://brainworkshop.sites.uiowa.edu/).
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Action potential Instructional Design Project
In my Design of Instruction course, I got to think creatively about how challenges for undergraduates learning the action potential might be addressed. I created an interactive JavaScript interface and associated student worksheet to try to improve students' external representations of the action potential and get them to think mechanistically about the material.