Approaches to Teaching
Inspired by my time teaching after school programs for elementary students, I believe that a college education should be a transformative experience for a person, whether that individual is a first-generation college student, or someone with a long history of college-educated parents. Sociology, in particular, can share practical and meaningful insights into how our current social systems work for and against all students on the socio-economic spectrum.
In order to prepare myself to teach in an ever diversifying environment, I have pursued training in teaching students from all backgrounds about different, often difficult, topics. I’ve attended, for example, seminars on trauma-informed teaching and dialogue-based discussion techniques. I use these practices along with the skills I’ve picked up analyzing data to create curriculum that, similar to “whole person” medicine, addresses students’ multiple concerns and meets them where they are while completing clearly defined course objectives.
Running List of Courses I’d Love to Design
Graduate:
Sociology of Education
Sociology of Families
Sociology of Children and Youth
Statistical Methods
Latinx Education
Longitudinal Data and Methods
Undergraduate:
Race, Poverty, and Schools
Understanding Nonprofit Organizations
Charitable Giving
Sociology of the Latinx Community
Mixed-Methods
Statistics: Numerical Literacy Beyond Liberal Arts
Example Assignments / Student Work
INFOGRAPHIC: In my Sociology of Education course one of the assignments available for students to select is an infographic. We use insights from the sociological imagination to populate the infographics, complimenting science with the flow and presentation of information.
