teaching & mentoring

Teaching evaluations

Teaching experience

The University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

Graduate Part-Time Instructor

Introduction to Social Psychology (Fall 2023)

• I prepared and taught my own course containing 40 students.

• My course covered topics such as the self (self-concept, motives, and regulation), perceiving and judging other people (fundamental attribution error, schemas, priming, heuristics), emotion (components and expression), attitudes and persuasion (cognitive dissonance, attitude change), social influence (norms, conformity, etc.), relationships and attraction, stereotyping and prejudice, group psychology (social facilitation, group decision-making), aggression, altruism, and cooperation.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Introduction to Social Psychology (Spring 2021 & Spring 2023)

• I attended lectures, held 2-hour office hours each week, coordinated and proctored special accommodation exams, and graded essay assignments on applying social psychology concepts to daily life.

Introduction to Behavioral Genetics (Fall 2022)

• I attended lectures, held 2-hour office hours each week, coordinated special accommodations exams, and graded weekly chat posts discussing class topics.

Psychological Science I: Statistics (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, expected Spring 2024)

• I taught two two-hour lab sections each week (a total of 80 students).

• Topics covered included hypothesis testing, central tendency, normal distributions, z-scoring, distribution of sample means, variance, one/two-sample and repeated samples t-tests, correlation, regression,  one/two-way ANOVA, and chi-squared testing. 

Advanced Judgment and Decision-Making Seminar (Fall 2020)

• I taught two two-hour lab sections each week (a total of 80 students).

• I co-graded three exams and the final, weekly assignments, and my lab sections' final papers and presentations. 

• Topics covered included Bayes' theorem and conditional probability,  individual differences in cognitive reflection, representative heuristic and conjunction fallacy, availability heuristic and Support Theory,  hindsight bias, anchoring and adjustment heuristic, nudging, Prospect Theory, delay discounting, affect heuristic along with the application of topics in political polarization and human cooperation.

Advanced Research Methods in Social Psychology (Spring 2020)

• I taught two two-hour lab sections each week (a total of 80 students).

• I co-graded three exams, my lab sections' weekly assignments, and two APA papers. 

• Topics covered included how to be a critical research consumer, CITI training, introduction to R and RStudio, literature reviews, preparing a survey on Qualtrics, collecting data, analyzing data in R, writing an APA paper, and practicing oral presentations.

Introduction to Research Methods (Fall 2019)

• I taught two two-hour lab sections each week (a total of 80 students).

• I co-graded three exams, my lab sections' weekly assignments, and my lab sections' final papers. 

• Topics covered included how to be a critical research consumer, CITI training, introduction to R and RStudio, literature reviews, preparing a survey on Qualtrics, collecting data, analyzing data in R, writing an APA paper, and practicing oral presentations.

Undergraduate Learning Assistant

Biological Psychology (Fall 2018 & Spring 2019)

• Assisted as a mentor and tutor for two semesters.

• Facilitated learning of bi-weekly in-class learning activities.

• Conducted one-on-one "Teach an LA" sessions in which students teach recently learned concepts to deepen knowledge of class topics.

• Held weekly office hours and check-in with professor and course learning assistants.

Mentoring experience

Advancing Diversity through Anthropological and Psychological Training (ADAPT) Program

Graduate Student Representative Coordinator

• I am assisting in preparation for this program expected to begin July 2024. I am helping prepare mentee applications and will assist in vetting applicants. 

The University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

Co-lead Graduate Student for Social Psychology Area (2023-2024)

Honors Student Mentor, Jack Colvin (2020-2021)

Research Mentor, Scott Uhlman (2020-2021, current MA at CU Colorado Springs)

Research Mentor, Ayurda Pathak (2020-2021, current MA at Fordham University)

Graduate Student Peer Mentor (2020-2021 & 2023-2024)

Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, Massachusetts

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Research Methods (Spring 2017)

• Assisted 27 students during in-class group-work and took notes for absent and special accommodation students.

• Helped students develop research proposals and proctored 3 exams.

• Ran study groups before exams and held office hours each week.

Senior Achievement, Cultural competency and Engagement (ACE) Mentor (Fall 2016 & Spring 2017)

• I led and supported a cohort of 8 ACE mentors through two semesters.

• Assisted in hiring and recruitment of 30 mentors and facilitated bi-weekly training meetings.

• Prepared and co-presented "Cultural inclusion: How to communicate effectively" to ACE mentor training and a Learning Community Seminar.

Course ACE Mentor: Introduction to Computer Science and Object-Oriented Programming (Fall 2015, Spring & Summer 2016)

• Assisted three semesters of classes, each with ~25 students, with lab projects, homework, and in-class activities along with connecting students to financial aid resources, and tutoring assistance.