Teaching

As an adjunct lecturer at UNC-Charlotte, I taught sociological social psychology in an online, asynchronous format. I took a team-based approach that facilitated group interactions that students often miss in online class formats. Working in small groups allowed students to see the ways in which phenomena that we discussed during the course might appear in their own teams: for example, did students with higher status characteristics (e.g., more senior students) have the most influence in each group? Assignments focused on applying formal theories to problems that students encounter in their daily lives in order to make abstract theoretical concepts more concrete.

Before this, I prepped and taught labs that accompanied introductory psychology courses. My labs focused on developing students' writing skills and making connections to topics in other disciplines. As a general education course, taking a multidisciplinary approach encouraged students to see the use of psychological concepts regardless of what fields they pursued.

I have also served as a teaching assistant for psychology and sociology courses ranging in enrollment from 10-160 students, including sociological and psychological research methods, quantitative analysis, experimental research in sociology, and others.