Teaching

As a Learning Designer at OpenClassrooms, I create and maintain the curriculum on our diploma-granting paths. At OpenClassrooms, learning is project-based: on these paths, students work individually to create their own deliverables in realistic job scenarios. While we strive to encourage students to be self-motivated, we also support them with weekly 1:1 mentorship sessions, OpenClassrooms courses and complementary resources, and multimedia-savvily designed starter kit documents. We aim to design curriculum that both encourages students from a vast variety of backgrounds to become life-long, self-motivated learners and empowers them to succeed in new careers.

My pedagogical philosophy has been shaped by over a decade of experience teaching in-person and online and tutoring one-on-one with a variety of students and situations. I believe that successful teaching uses a diversity of teaching modalities, assessments, and activities to foster students’ individual learning practices. To encourage an interactive and dynamic classroom environment, I lead classes with enthusiasm and excitement, which students consistently comment on in evaluations. To help students develop as linguists, my classes balance empirical data from non-European, understudied and endangered languages with logical and careful argumentation. I believe that good teaching, like good research, involves constant learning and development.

University Courses Taught (since 2016)

Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester

LIN 227: Topics in Phonetics/Phonology: Prosody and Meter

  • Spring 2020; Instructor
  • Upper-level discussion/reading course on the relationship between rhythm and prominence in language, poetry and music

LIN 110: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis

  • Fall 2019; Instructor
  • The first linguistic course that most eventual Linguistic majors take at UR

LIN 210/410: Introduction to Language Sound Systems

  • Fall 2017; Co-instructor (with Prof. Joyce McDonough)
  • Foundational undergraduate and MA-level course in phonetics and phonology

Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California

LIN 110: In a Word

  • Fall 2016; Teaching Assistant (with Prof. Hajime Hoji)
  • Introductory undergraduate course in linguistics