Over the course of my teaching career, I have made significant changes in my approach to teaching, transforming my pedagogy from a faculty-centered approach to student-centered teaching and learning. As I constantly strive to be an effective teacher committed to enhancing student learning, I have embraced teaching with technology tools, applied contemporary teaching methodologies to my work with students, and focused my efforts on cultivating engagement through a learning environment centered on discovery. Over the years, I have gained expertise in a number of areas including, interactive collaborative critiquing, curricular mapping, knowledge scaffolding, alignment of course activities to learning outcomes, three-way assessment on student projects that includes peer review, self assessment and teacher assessment, developing course syllabus as a comprehensive road map for student success, deploying knowledge surveys, carefully designed rubrics, and other assessment tools as a means of measuring whether or not students are achieving learning outcomes.
Courses that I have taught include include Drawing, 2-D Design, 3-D Design, First Year Seminar, Introductory Photography, Digital Photography, Alternative Processes, Documentary Photography, senior-level photography projects, Color Photography, BFA thesis, Studio Lighting, and the History of Photography. I have mentored senior projects, internships, independent studies, and undergraduate student research projects. In addition, I co-founded and established a study abroad program in Italy called Progetto Perugia. I have had exciting opportunities to teach in interdisciplinary collaborative programs and to work with remarkable photographic artists and educators such as Bart Parker, and Emmet Gowin.