From 2014-2016, I served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF) at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching (CFT). Each year the CFT selects five students to mentor and train graduate students who serve as teaching assistants or instructors of record at Vanderbilt.
During my tenure as a GTF, I consulted with students about their teaching statements and syllabi, conducted in-class observations, facilitated a weekly section of the CFT's Certificate in College Teaching Program and led the annual campus-wide training of new Vanderbilt teaching assistants. I also authored two teaching guides on managing student stress and promoting gender inclusivity titled "Keeping Stress From Evolving Into Distress: A Guide on Managing Stress Through Course Design" and "Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom." I also overhauled the CFT's Certificate in College Teaching Program curriculum to address issues of diversity and cultural competency in university teaching.
During the 2014-2015 academic year, I served as co-facilitator of a graduate learning community that explored the challenges educators face in negotiating difference and power in college classrooms, particularly around issues of race. Learn more about this work here.
During the 2015-2016 academic year, I served as co-facilitator of a learning community that investigated issues of teaching, gender and sexuality in the university setting. Learn more about this work here.
While at Brown University, I received extensive pedagogical training at the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. I completed the following seminar programs: Certificate I: Sheridan Teaching Seminar on Reflective Teaching, Certificate II: Classroom Tools, and Certificate IV: Teaching Consultants.
As a graduate student, I served as a teaching assistant in a wide array of political science courses including (but not limited to): Political Psychology, Introduction to American Government, Congress and Public Policy, and Introduction to Comparative Politics.
During my tenure as a GTF, I consulted with students about their teaching statements and syllabi, conducted in-class observations, facilitated a weekly section of the CFT's Certificate in College Teaching Program and led the annual campus-wide training of new Vanderbilt teaching assistants. I also authored two teaching guides on managing student stress and promoting gender inclusivity titled "Keeping Stress From Evolving Into Distress: A Guide on Managing Stress Through Course Design" and "Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom." I also overhauled the CFT's Certificate in College Teaching Program curriculum to address issues of diversity and cultural competency in university teaching.
During the 2014-2015 academic year, I served as co-facilitator of a graduate learning community that explored the challenges educators face in negotiating difference and power in college classrooms, particularly around issues of race. Learn more about this work here.
During the 2015-2016 academic year, I served as co-facilitator of a learning community that investigated issues of teaching, gender and sexuality in the university setting. Learn more about this work here.
While at Brown University, I received extensive pedagogical training at the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. I completed the following seminar programs: Certificate I: Sheridan Teaching Seminar on Reflective Teaching, Certificate II: Classroom Tools, and Certificate IV: Teaching Consultants.
As a graduate student, I served as a teaching assistant in a wide array of political science courses including (but not limited to): Political Psychology, Introduction to American Government, Congress and Public Policy, and Introduction to Comparative Politics.
