Time Literacy

Courses

Additional Courses

I tend to teach five core courses and one first-year seminar.

Undergraduate Teaching

Modern Classroom

Human Development 270: Child Development

An undergraduate General Education course that is a prerequisite for Education pathways. I teach this course once per year to 120 students along with two graduate student teaching assistants and 10 undergraduate discussion leaders. I teach this course once per academic year, usually in the Spring semester.

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EDUC 463: Principles and Methods of Teaching Mathematics Grades Pre-K-6

 Undergraduate course serving Early Childhood licensure majors and other education majors. I teach this course once per year to 30 students, usually in the Fall semester.

Graduate Teaching

EDUC 714: Learning and Thinking in Childhood

A graduate seminar for doctoral and M.A. students. This course explores applied contexts—both formal/educational and informal/everyday—that support cognitive development from infancy to middle childhood and adolescence.  We begin with a brief study of the neural bases of cognition as they apply to education and an exploration of theories specific to the interplay between education and cognitive development.  Other areas of education include language and literacy, number and space, and play. I teach this course approximately every three years to 6-10 students.I teach this course once every 2-3 years.

EDUC 690R: How Children Learn Mathematics

A graduate level seminar in international education that supports the Early Grades Reading certificate program at the UMass College of Education. 

First-year seminar: Time Management and Time Literacy.

For first-year students beginning their college careers. A seminar on time management from practical and theoretical perspectives. This course involves identifying and improving strategies and skills related to time management. Students will focus on how to manage their time for college academics and extracurricular activities, and how to develop overall time literacy in order to establish productive routines based on what works for you. 

EDUC 691R: Promising Practices in School Mathematics

Graduate/licensure course serving M.Ed. and elementary teaching license. I teach this course once per year to approximately 7-15 students in the Fall semester.