Teaching Portfolio
Below you will find course syllabi, modules, and lesson plans that are designed to connect students to the world around them as they begin to identify as scientists.
BIOL1107 Course Syllabus
This syllabus outlines the structure of my introductory biology course for Biology and Life Sciences majors.
Exam Revision Assignments
Comprehensive and iterative exam revision assignments that guided students to master learning objectives they had not succeeded on and reflect on their learning strategies. The efficacy of these assignments at compelling student growth is the subject of research ongoing under UCONN IRB: H19-009
Learning Objective Guides
These interactive resources support students learning and studying of course content by linking individual learning objectives to: screen capture audio recordings of course lecture segments, course review sessions, requested custom help videos
Malate Dehydrogenase Active Site
Malate Dehydrogenase Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
Developed a semester-spanning course-based research project where students pose hypothesis about the function of amino acids in the Malate Dehydrogenase enzyme, then design, create, and characterize mutant enzymes to test these hypotheses. Student success is assessed by iterative presentations of work. These labs performed in collaboration with the Ellis and Jessica Bell Laboratory, University of San Diego; and the Malate Dehydrogenase CUREs Community.
Founder and Co-director of the UConn Hartford Biology Tutoring Center
Negotiated funding and space for and directed a free to use Biology Tutoring Center to support BIOL1107 and other BIOL, EEB, and MCB courses.