Teaching

Teaching science is something which is very important to me and something I take great satisfaction in trying to do well. I was a teaching assistant for the following courses at Berkeley:

• Astro 122
  The Undergrad Infrared Laboratory, with James Graham in Fall 2004.
• Astro 7a
       Fall 2001, with Hy Spinrad. I was head TA for this higher-level undergraduate course. See my Astro 7 page here.
• Astro 10
       Gibor Basri's Spring 2001 Astronomy 10 class. See my Astro 10 page here.
• Astro 10
       Don Goldsmith's fall 2001 Astro 10 class.

I've twice attended the CFAO's Professional Development Workshop on Inquiry-based teaching techniques. Highly recommended!

I wrote a statement of my teaching philosophy during the Teaching Astronomy seminar I took with Bryan Mendez during fall 2000. There are a few things I'd say differently now, but by and large I stand by this.