I was assigned my first class in the fall of 1993 - Precalulcus at Miami University as a TA. I have been teaching ever since, including a year in high school. I am passionate about teaching and student learning. I am particularly interested in the recent advances in cognitive psychology that gives us a better understanding of how the brain learns and social psychologists work on classroom dynamics and belongingness. I have conducted several SOTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) projects noted below. I am an active practitioner of the flipped classroom. In 2004 I started using the Thinkwell series for calculus by Ed Burger well before the term flipped classroom was coined. In my more advanced classes, I use reading notes, a practice described in the MAA Notes article below.
- Student beliefs on math ability and sense of belonging to a math community(poster with Frank Hassebrock) at Integrating Cognitive Science with Innovative STEM Education, Northwestern University, September, 2015.
- Student beliefs on math ability and sense of belonging to a math community(presentation with Frank Hassebrock) at 2015 MathFest, Washington DC, August 2015.
- Introduction to Proofs Over-Easy: A Low-Cost Alternative to the Flipped Classroom,Beyond Lecture: Techniques to Improve Student Proof-Writing Across the Curriculum, MAA Notes Series, 2015.
- Diffusion and random walks, (with Annabel Edwards) Computational science across the curriculum (DUE 9952806).
- Using matrix algebra to understand population growth rate, (with Geoff Smith) Computational science across the curriculum (DUE 9952806).