Fellowships and Development
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Fellowships
Teaching Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
2023-2024
- Appointed by the Department of Psychology and the Dean of GSAS to teach a course in the academic year (less than 25 scholars are appointed every year)
- Only student nominated by the Department of Psychology for this academic year based on my record as a researcher and future promise as an educator
- Designed a seminar course titled “From lab to life: How cognition research affects everything you do!” from scratch that combines my interests and expertise
- Fellowship covers sixth year funding (stipend, tuition, and fees)
Teaching Assessment Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University
2023-2024
- Applied and awarded fellowship for the academic year
- Partner with faculty on projects funded through the Provost’s office to assist with assessing the effectiveness of Teaching as Research projects.
Lead Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University
2022-2023
- Applied and awarded fellowship for the academic year
- Organized a workshop for the Psychology department’s graduate students and postdoctoral researchers titled “Agency as a TA: Building relationships with our students and creating inclusive learning environments”
- Liaised between psychology Ph.D. students and Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning
- Developed a resource for teaching and TA’ing within the department
- Conducted a needs assessment within the department, and organized a department-specific microteaching session for my colleagues to try out samples of their instruction for feedback.
Awards
2023 Graduate Student Travel Grant for Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s Annual Conference on Teaching
Pedagogical Development
Teaching Development Program - Advanced Track
(Administered by the center for Teaching and Learning at Columbia University)
In addition to the required pedagogy seminar in the department of psychology, I pursued and completed the advanced track of the Teaching Developement Program offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning. This involved actively engaging in 12 workshops, completing a multi-session intensive seminar, completing observations (both of myself, and other instructors), and creating a robust teaching portfolio.
List of Workshops attended
(led or overseen by the Center for Teaching and Learning at Columbia University)
- Essentials of Teaching and Learning (4-part series)
- Illuminating the learning process
- Reflections on a year and a half of online teaching and learning (2-part series)
- Ungrading and Re-centering Process in the Classroom
- Difficult Knowledge and Inclusive Teaching Practices
- Teaching by Observing: Effective teaching observations
- Teaching through Discussion
- Assessing Teaching and Learning
Intensive Seminar on Inclusive Teaching
(led by the Center for Teaching and Learning at Columbia University)
- Completed a 5-part intensive series by reflecting on my current inclusive teaching experiences and practices, engaging with scholarship on inclusive teaching, and applying it to my teaching practice.
- Authored my “Statement of Inclusive Teaching”, which explicitly documents my commitment to creating an inclusive environment and is directed at students. I incorporated this statement into my syllabus for the applied cognition research seminar I will be teaching this Fall.