Teaching

In my teaching career, I have helped develop and teach courses related to developmental, social, and cognitive psychology. My research and background span a broad array of subfields in psychology and I take interdisplinary perspective that incorporates work from related fields (including sociology, linguistics, and computer science). As a teacher, I start from the assumption that teaching should be fundamentally adaptive, and that a student-centered approach is crucial to meet the needs of each learner.

I have also sought to create new spaces for learning and for learning about teaching. In graduate school at the University of Chicago, I co-founded and co-organized a new organization (now running for more than 5 years) that promotes discussion of the so-called hidden curriculum of graduate school and doing science more broadly. Among other topics, the group filled a void in the extant curriculum by covering contemporary open science practices and debates, and I also helped facilitate an annual event focused on how to incorproate those topics into our undergraduate teaching.

Experience

Experience as Instructor of Record:

• Baby Talk: Infant Communication and Cognition before Language, 2024

Experience as Teaching Assistant:

• University of Chicago

  • Human Language and Interaction. Instructor: Marisa Casillas, 2023
  • Intro to Developmental Psychology. Instructor: Kate O’Doherty, 2022
  • Development of Social Cognition. Instructor: Katherine Kinzler, 2022
  • Intro to Developmental Psychology. Instructor: Kate O’Doherty, 2021
  • Development of Social Cognition. Instructor: Katherine Kinzler, 2021

• Reed College

  • Research Design and Data Analysis. Instructor: Kathryn Oleson, 2015
  • Developmental Psychology. Instructor: Jennifer Corpus, 2015
  • Research Design and Data Analysis. Instructor: Kathryn Oleson, 2014

Experience as Guest Lecturer:

• Talking to Others: The Psychology of Communication. Instructor: Ashley Leung.
  • “The Transmission of Social Stereotypes through Conversation” (2023)
• Human Language and Interaction. Instructor: Marisa Casillas.
  • “The Human Interaction Engine Hypothesis” (2023)
  • “Experimental Methods for Studying Interaction in Childhood” (2023)
• Talking to Others: The Psychology of Communication. Instructor: Ashley Leung.
  • “‘Umm… Yeah’: The role of disfluencies in conversation” (2022)

Pedagogical Training

In my view, teaching is fundamentally a practice, and as such I am passionate about integrating feedback from students and colleagues, continuing to develop my own pedagogical skills, and building community around the critical reflection of pedagogical practices. I have participated in a number of courses and workshops aimed on college teaching, especially concerning equitable teaching practices and modern teaching approaches (e.g., gamefication, the role of AI). I have also worked as a Teaching Consultant partnering with professors to provide feedback on their courses, as well as completing observations and analyses of my own teaching practices in real time.

Coursework:

• Equitable Teaching in the Socials Sciences and Humanities (10 wk course, Yale)
• CCTE 50000: Course Design and College Teaching (Semester course, UChicago)
• Fundamentals of Teaching (4 wk course, UChicago)

Workshops Attended and Organized:

• Individual Teaching Observation and Consultation (UChicago)
• Teaching in the Age of AI (UChicago)
• Inclusive Teaching: Belonging, Structure, and Active Learning (UChicago)
• Teaching Developmental Science (Society for Research on Child Development)
• Gamification for Higher Education (UChicago)
• Teaching Reproducibility and Open Science with Undergraduates (co-organizer, UChicago)