Teaching
My current teaching responsibilities consist of mentoring students
in laboratory projects related to my own research. However, I also have experience in traditional
classroom-based instruction.
From 2003 to 2006, I helped teach the UW course "Biological
Frameworks For Engineers," a problem-based learning course that
encourages engineering students to apply their problem-solving
skills to various biological systems. The course has been offered
to chemical engineering students in the fall (ChemE 355/599),
electrical engineering
students in the winter (EE 400/546), and mechanical engineering students in the spring
(ME 498/598). Aside from giving some lectures, I supervised the integration of
Teranode
software and journal club sessions
into these courses.
In 2004 and 2005, I also taught
"Musical Representations of Science and Mathematics," a three-day summer
mini-course for high school
students participating in the University of Washington's GEAR UP program.
In essence, my course allowed students
to create short songs with lyrics about a scientific or mathematical topic of their choosing. For
additional information,
please see the 2005 course
syllabus (a Microsoft Word document).
I spent the 2002-03 academic year at the University of Puget Sound, where I taught
Cell Biology
and Animal Physiology.
Three other teaching-related items are also included in the "Teaching"
section of this website:
a statement of my teaching philosophy,
a small set of virtual
flashcards for glycolytic enzymes, and an anthology of quotations by one of my favorite
professors. (Information about educational science songs can be found in the Science songs
subsection of the "Miscellany" section.)
As for other external links, I recommend the University of British
Columbia's Team-Based Learning site,
the University of Washington's
Biology Education Research Group (BERG) and
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning sites,
and the National
Center for Science Education. The latter is devoted to the defense of teaching evolution in
public schools.
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