Summary

During the first three years of my graduate education, I was responsible for all aspects of mathematics courses, teaching as many as 100 students a term. Later, at the University of Washington, I received high marks from the students and faculty as a teaching assistant for calculus in the mathematics department and assisted with most of the graduate and undergraduate level courses taught in the applied mathematics department. In addition, I assisted with undergraduate physics labs and ocassionally gave guest lectures at high schools when I was an undergraduate at the University of Colorado.

Philosophy

I believe that the key to effective teaching is to get students to actively participate in their education inside and outside of the classroom. The role of the instructor is to enliven the material, to provide sufficient and appropriate practice, to lead students to ask the proper questions and guide their search for the answers, and to identify and help students overcome obstacles to understanding.

Experience

Teaching Assistant

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

Most quarters from Fall 1990 - Winter 1995

• Assisted with courses in
  Graduate level:
  • ordinary differential equations
  • partial differential equations
  • numerical solution of differential equations
  • complex analysis
  • nonlinear dynamics and chaos
  • mathematical ecology
  • applied linear algebra and numerical methods

  Undergraduate level:

  • vector calculus and complex variables
  • ordinary differential equations
  • partial differential equations
  • calculus

• Cooperated with the professor in charge of the course in assessing students and course materials.
• Graded exams and homework and created solution sets.
• Held office hours, where students could seek individual attention, several hours each week.

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