Teaching

~The greatest ideas are worthless if you keep them to yourself~

the profession

I consider the vital goal of teaching to encourage learning and foster new ideas. Students take many of their learning habits from the professor. I believe that If I do not show interest in the subject and a passion for learning, students will less likely produce the effort to learn in the class. I believe that one way to foster learning is to demonstrate those feelings to my students. I also emphasize the interconnection among concepts, which helps students to apprehend new topics.

I focus on developing and delivering data science and statistics classes. I teach online and in-person. I believe in continuous improvement in teaching and mentoring. Live-coding is a unique teaching style that is invaluable to the development of future statistician and data scientists. Active learning is essential to students and group work to gain confidence and skills. I am always looking for new ways to make my teaching style and materials more approachable and inclusive.

courses taught

advising and mentoring

I have consistently advised and guided students. Awarded The Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Awards in 2024 at UWF.

  • Ph.D. Advisor: 1 student

  • Member Ed.D. dissertation committees (statistician): 2 students

  • Chair M.S. dissertations committees: 3 students

  • Member M.S. dissertations committees: 4 students

  • Proseminars: +20 students

  • Capstone Projects: +40 students

  • Directed Studies: 2

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Projects (SURP): + 5