Overview
I have years of experience teaching middle school, high school, undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty across various institution types, including community-college and R1 settings. At each of these places, I have taught asynchronously online, synchronously online, hybrid of online and face-to-face, and face-to-face, and I have won several teaching awards. Across all these courses, my goal is to structure my classes around critical pedagogy and intersectional feminism so that students can become change agents in their lives in their education and worlds. For instance, in my “Rhetoric and Writing” first-year writing class, my theme was disruption where students examined how we may transform systems. One project students did was a multimodal archive project where students first researched in the university’s archives and then found artifacts to disrupt the traditional campus narratives they knew. This culminated in creating multimodal projects to showcase that disruption, including videos, podcasts, paintings, and poems. Some examples of their final products included a video interview project of past and present students, art schematics for new memorials and statues on campus to honor other stories, or an album of alternative history narratives and songs. Many took those projects to their senior portfolios years later, which demonstrates my commitment to also make learning authentic to students’ lives and the world around them.
In addition to all the classroom teaching, I have also created curricula, workshops, and professional development. I have developed these offerings for a wide-variety of audiences from undergraduates to graduate students to faculty and K-12 teachers. Some offerings included revising and developing Navigating Graduate School series for PhD and master’s students as well as a trauma-informed pedagogy and tutoring workshops and curricula that I have delivered at over five institutions. Moreover, I was awarded an Engaged Pedagogy Grant where I helped to facilitate a workshop series on transformative classroom practices for faculty at Michigan State University and local K-12 teachers.
In addition to all the classroom teaching, I have also created curricula, workshops, and professional development. I have developed these offerings for a wide-variety of audiences from undergraduates to graduate students to faculty and K-12 teachers. Some offerings included revising and developing Navigating Graduate School series for PhD and master’s students as well as a trauma-informed pedagogy and tutoring workshops and curricula that I have delivered at over five institutions. Moreover, I was awarded an Engaged Pedagogy Grant where I helped to facilitate a workshop series on transformative classroom practices for faculty at Michigan State University and local K-12 teachers.
What can I do as a learning professional?
F2F and eLearningI've taught for many years now and a wide variety of classes. I've taught face-to-face, synchronously online, and asynchronously online. In addition, I have designed courses for training in both academic & corporate settings.
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Multimedia DesignIn my own experience with digital rhetoric and public relations marketing, I've designed many projects across various platforms and modalities.
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Curriculum DevelopmentI have designed full curriculums for classes as well as various academic and corporate trainings. I use a wide variety of design programs, learning management systems, and Excel formulas.
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