Teaching Overview
I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in face-to-face and online asynchronous settings, using platforms and tools including Canvas, Blackboard and Moodle. I hold training certificates in College Teaching from Boston College; and Online Teaching, Advanced Online Teaching, and Inclusive Teaching from St. John’s University. I engage in ongoing professional development activities focused on my teaching practice.
Courses Taught
Child Growth & Development
Child Growth & Development provides an overview of child development from prenatal through middle childhood across the contexts of families, communities, care and education settings, health care, and policy systems.
Educational Foundations and Systems
This doctoral seminar is on the history of education in the United States with a focus on inequities and ways to improve education systems from early childhood to higher education. Students engage in scaffolded writing assignments to support their own education research projects.
Introductory Research Methods
I have taught introductory research methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate level for students in psychology, education and human development programs across three universities. Topics covered include developing research questions, conducting literature reviews, the basics of quantitative, qualitative and multi/mixed methods and designs and analyses; concepts related to validity and reliability; sampling; structure and writing of research proposals, reports, articles and products for diverse audiences.
Advanced Quantitative Research
This course is focused on advanced topics in quantitative methods for PhD students. Examples of content covered include: multivariate regression, logistic regression, factor analysis and scale development, working with secondary datasets, survey research, and writing research proposals and reports using quantitative designs.
Qualitative Research Designs & Analysis
With an introductory focus on the basics of qualitative research designs and analysis, this course provides education graduate students a foundation for reading qualitative and conducting their own qualitative research.
Advanced Qualitative Seminar
Through this advanced graduate seminar, graduate students are supported to analyze their own qualitative data and draft a paper to submit to a peer-reviewed journal.
Mixed Methods Designs & Analysis
This graduate level course focuses on unique mixed methods research designs and analyses in education and social sciences that integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Early Childhood Policy Field Experience
I teach a full-year seminar and supervise graduate students completing an internship focused on early childhood leadership, policy and advocacy.
Dissertation Seminar
Through this course I mentored doctoral students in their dissertation research from proposal development through dissertation defense.