Teaching Resume
PLSCS 1900 - Fall 2018
"Sustainable Agriculture: Food, Farming, and the Future"
Professor: Dr. Matt Ryan Cornell University 58 Students Lecture + Lab Section Syllabus Sustainable Agriculture Student Films Student Evaluations: 4.89/5 (+/- 0.31) Student Feedback: "Overall the assignments were fun to complete and the lab activities were engaging, especially the field trips. Guest lectures were engaging and interesting as well! Brought in lots of different perspectives on agriculture and its future." "This course was an excellent way to contextualize what farms could be doing alongside what they are doing." "The course was very helpful. I appreciate Professor Ryan and Taylor's dedication in this class. I was very interested and passionate about things that we had learned." "I strongly disliked the Movie Project, but this is just a personal view. I would have much preferred it to have been an extra credit option, or possibly a way to be exempt from the final. I understand it was a way to get students to branch out with their knowledge, but digital video media is not something I have a strong-suit in nor want to be adept in." Reflections: Participating as a TA for this course showed me the importance of using multiple different small-group learning activities to make a larger class feel smaller in size. Feedback from students (online and in person) has convinced me of the importance of organization and clear learning objectives in making larger, introductory survey courses a success. |
Thor Oeschner showing a successful soybean field planted following cover crop crimping.
Students harvesting their cover crops at the end of the semester and assessing biomass production, weed presence, and weed diversity.
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PLSCS 3650 - Spring 2019
"Environmental Chemistry: Soil, Air, and Water"
Professor: Dr. Murray McBride
Cornell University
26 Students
Lecture + 2 Weekly Recitation Periods (Optional)
Syllabus
Reflections:
I feel honored to have had the opportunity to teach alongside Professor Murray McBride. Using material he has streamlined teaching this course over several decades, we used targeted problem sets to actively engage the students in the material covered during lecture. Conducting two recitation periods each week was crucial to making this approach a success. I found the students to be much more likely to engage with material, work together, and connect the material to larger concepts in this less formal setting. As the sole facilitator of the recitations, I gained experience in instruction and built relationships with students across many different disciplines at Cornell.
Cornell University
26 Students
Lecture + 2 Weekly Recitation Periods (Optional)
Syllabus
Reflections:
I feel honored to have had the opportunity to teach alongside Professor Murray McBride. Using material he has streamlined teaching this course over several decades, we used targeted problem sets to actively engage the students in the material covered during lecture. Conducting two recitation periods each week was crucial to making this approach a success. I found the students to be much more likely to engage with material, work together, and connect the material to larger concepts in this less formal setting. As the sole facilitator of the recitations, I gained experience in instruction and built relationships with students across many different disciplines at Cornell.
CRSS 4670/6670 - Spring 2013
"Environmental Soil Chemistry"
Professor: Dr. Aaron Thompson
University of Georgia
~25 Students
Lecture
Reflections:
As my first time as a teaching assistant, this was a learning experience in every aspect. The course was a split-level lecture course covering more specialized topics in soil chemistry. This was my first introduction to class logistics, grading, lecturing, and organizing content.