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Teaching Philosophy

  • Integrate different forms of learning to fit every student's needs

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  • Entice students to think critically using thought experiments and applied examples

 

  • Prepare students for future jobs through deadlines, high expectations, and promoting self-motivation

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  • Create a safe learning environment for all students and be available through multiple means of communication

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  • Explain that understanding content trumps regurgitation of content by creating tests that allow students to apply knowledge to scenario-based questions

Teaching Experience

Lectures at UGA

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Inference for models of Fish and Wildlife population dynamics. Graduate level course.  WILD/FISH 8390. (Spring 2023)

    • Solo lecture on Occupancy modeling

  • Guest Lecture – Hunting history, ethics, and sustainability. Wild Harvesting in Georgia FANR 3600 (Fall 2023)

Lectures at Virginia Teach

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Mammalogy FIW 4334. (Fall 2019 & Fall 2017)

    • Lectured lab sections

    • Developed lecture on Cetaceans

  •  Graduate Teaching Assistant – Herpetology FIW 4344. (Spring 2019)

    • Lectured lab section

  • Guest Lecture – Captive breeding in Herpetology. Herpetology FIW 4344. (Spring 2020)

Lectures at Other institutions

  • Guest Lecture – Prescribed Fire and Wildlife Impacts. Environmental Biology.  BIOL 103. Radford University (Spring 2020)

Workshops

  • Presenter – R Programming Language. Virginia Tech. The Wildlife Society Student Chapter. (Fall 2019)

  • Co-Presenter – Occupancy in Unmarked and Winbugs. Virgnia tech, College of Natural Resources, and the Environment. (Fall 2019)

  • Workshop Teaching Assistant – Introduction to R for Natural Resource Professionals. Virginia Chapter of the Wildlife Society Meeting. Blacksburg, VA. (January 2019).

Outreach Lectures

  • Guest speaker – Thesis Presentation. TWS UGA Student Chapter Meeting (Fall 2020)

  • Guest Lecture – Use of Prescribed Fire for Wildlife. Cary Junior High. Sixth grade science class. Next Generation Science Standards. (Fall 2020)

Pedagogical Courses Taken

  • Pedagogy (FIW 6004, Virginia Tech)

  • GTA Training Workshop (GRAD 5004, Virginia Tech)

  • University Teaching in Natural Resources (FANR 8900, University of Georgia)

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