Teaching

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My teaching philosophy centers the core values of confidence, curiosity, and autonomy: I wish for every student to leave my classroom feeling curious about the humanistic structures of the world, and confident in their ability to identify, deconstruct, and describe any set of observations or perspectives that their curiosity leads them to. I have developed a teaching practice with three main goals, which all serve to cultivate the values of confidence, curiosity, and autonomy in my students. These goals are 1) critical reflection: the capacity to engage with new material critically and situate it in a broader context; 2) community collaboration: taking learning to be a collaborative endeavor, that requires a recursive process of community compassion and care; and 3) clear scientific expression: the ability to articulate (in prose) a perspective on a topic, and speak to the observations that lead to one’s drawn conclusions. I implement teaching strategies to achieve these goals, and appeal to Student Evaluations of Teaching Surveys (SETS) and other forms of feedback to guide my continuous process of refining and improving my pedagogical practice.

Current teaching appointment (Spring 2026):
LING 113 (Syntax II). Head instructor: Ivy Sichel

Office hours:
TBD (or by appointment), in STEV 232A
(Second floor of Stevenson College, faculty offices)

Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz

        2021 — present