Teaching
At Queens College, I regularly teach the following courses:
GEOL 16: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Moving Continents GEOL 200: Methods in Geoscience GEOL 201: Minerals, Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks GEOL 328W/728: Volcanoes and Climate/Advanced Volcanology I have also co-taught EES 717: Earth Systems II to Earth and Environmental Sciences PhD students at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My part focused on the dynamics of Earth's interior. My main goals as an educator is to (1) spark students’ interest and engage them in their learning of geoscience, (2) demonstrate the connections between geoscience and daily life, and (3) help students develop important transferable professional skills, such as critical thinking, synthesizing multi-source data and writing. I particularly like to incorporate hands-on project-based learning in my courses, when possible. For example, in GEOL 201, students learn mineralogy and petrology through authentic research, preparing their own samples and collecting data on the scanning electron microscope. I am also committed to transparent and fair assessment, and I routinely use grading rubrics that explicitly outline evaluation criteria and metrics for success and that I share with students well ahead of deadlines. |