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You can follow the links on this page to a statement of
my teaching philosophy,
to artifacts from some of my teaching and teaching-related experiences (for
example, science writing),
to see what I've done to address the lack of diversity in astronomy, and to
a few random odds and ends (such as the SDSS stellar templates, which I collected a while ago to do stellar-typing and which are a useful teaching tool).
I used to be very involved in the Pre-Major in Astronomy Program at the University of Washington. I co-wrote the proposal to fund Pre-MAP, I helped run it, and I'm very proud of the program... Pre-MAP is now in its third year, and has received nice press coverage both on the U.W.'s campus and beyond. I'm the poorly shaved adult on the right in the picture, which is of the 2003-2004 4/5th grade Bilingual Orientation Center students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary in Seattle (I'm not sure why the pattern on my guayabera looks asymmetrical, but anyway). I worked in that classroom assisting Sharon Acena, the adult on the left, from 2002 to 2005 as a member of the National Science Foundation's Graduate in K-12 Education Program at the University of Washington. Sharon very kindly wrote this letter describing my work in the BOC. My last year in Seattle, I worked in the same classroom as a volunteer as part of Project AstroBio. The photographs in these pages (except that of the shark, obviously) are from my various Thurgood Marshall classrooms. In the summer of 2007 I served as a research mentor for three high school students. Daniel Estrada and Rafael Mota were summer interns in the Science and Technology Entry Program at Barnard College; Nicholas Makarov was enrolled in the New York Academy of Sciences' Summer Research Program. These pictures highlight some of our activities over the summer. I am planning to link the reports they wrote for me to this page soon. In December 2007, I had an Education/Public Outreach proposal approved through the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The submitted proposal is here. As soon as the program, Rooftop Variables, has a website, I will link it here. |
