The Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Development Program offers doctoral students a path for sustained teaching development. Graduate students develop skills in describing and implementing pedagogical practices that draw on evidence-based educational research, developing learning goals and aligned assessment strategies that are clear and measurable, receiving and applying peer-to-peer feedback on teaching practice, and articulating a student-centered approach to teaching. As part of the Advanced Track, I developed a “Teaching as Research” proposal outlining the scientific investigation of guest lectures as pedagogical practice.

The Senior Lead Teaching Fellows are chosen from exceptional Lead Teaching Fellows at Columbia. As the Senior Lead Teaching Fellow, I have developed pedagogical workshops, including a Learning Community at the American Museum of Natural History for 20 graduate student instructors to develop methods for teaching beyond the classroom. I also mentored 5-6 Lead Teaching Fellows each year on developing pedagogical methods that centered diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Lead Teaching Fellowship is a selective teaching professional opportunity for doctoral students at Columbia. As the Lead Teaching Fellow, I’ve organized monthly Learning Lunches where 10 students chat with established Professors about pedagogy, inclusive teaching, and academia. I also hosted a Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve Teaching Workshop, where doctoral students worked together to develop lesson plans, integrate feedback using a 4-pronged rubric focused on accessibility, inclusivity, and antiracial course design, and then re-teach lessons. I mentor doctoral students in completing the prestigious Teaching Development Program certification, which is noted on the diplomas of high-achieving teachers at Columbia.

Led summer courses & workshops for 6th grade teachers; piloted workshops in OUSD classes.

Led 2 guest lectures, supervised weekly laboratory exercises, and graded homework assignments about computational data science research methods. Held weekly office hours, and mentored students with career development. 20 undergraduate/graduate students.

Designed syllabus, led lecture (attended by 100+ undergrad/grad students/faculty) and discussion (20+ students) with hands-on activities and guest speakers, created accessibility through live captioning, reviewed final assignments, led 20+ students in co-writing Community Research Handbook; recipient of $500,000 Graduate Equity Initiative Award to hire postdoc, adjunct faculty, and seed funding for graduate training in community-based environmental science projects for 3 years of future iterations of RCEJ class.

Designed and supervised weekly hands-on and computational laboratory activities for 35 undergraduate students. Led office hours for weekly homework assignments and mentored students in navigating environmental science majors and careers.

Developed weekly activities, taught lectures, designed autograders, mentored students with final projects

Designed syllabus, created original hands-on activities, lectures and final projects, mentored students; Featured in Feb 2021 DDC Newsletter.

Developed activities, led monthly workshops in Berkeley 1st and 5th grade classrooms.

Mentored 5 high-school students in STEM and college applications through ED190 - American Cultures Engaged Scholarship at UC Berkeley.