My Teaching Values

 

Accessibility

I prioritize accessibility in my teaching. I seek to meet students where they are at in their education and their lives. This means employing a range of teaching and assessment strategies, being approachable, adaptable, and supportive, and striving to communicate ideas in clear and engaging ways. It also means a focus on equity in how, not just what, I teach.

 

Responsibility

Teaching history - particularly histories of colonialism - is of vital urgency. I attempt to teach my students in a way that fosters empathy and avoids pathologizing people, allows for complexity and nuance, and attends to the operations of power and violence both historically and currently. I seek to draw connections between past and present to honestly assess both disruptions and continuities and to support my students as they deepen their understanding of and responsibility to the world in which we live.

Growth

While I aim to build my students’ knowledge of the material at hand, I also hope to support them to deepen their practice of self-reflection and self-awareness, their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills, and their analysis of power and history, in a way that will inform them in their engagement with course material, their broader academic journey, and in other realms of their lives.

 

Iteration

I work hard to adapt and adjust content, methods, materials, and assignments year to year in order to better meet the needs of my students and the goals of my course. I prioritize receiving feedback from colleagues and students, and remaining creative, responsive, and iterative.

 

My Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant for the following courses:

HIST 2900: Global Indigenous Histories (Online course delivery, Dr Carolyn Podruchny, Dept of History)

HREQ 1880: Social Change in Canada (Dr Maggie Quirt, Dept of Equity Studies)

HIST 1095: Streetlife: The History and Culture of European Cities (Dr Stephen Brooke, Dept of History)

Senior Record of Completion Certificate, York University’s Teaching Commons

Click here to check out a draft syllabus.