Teaching
Starting in the Fall of 2008 and continuing until my graduation, I was a TA for a variety of calculus courses. Each semester, I graded student assignments (most often quizzes and exams, including final exams) and held office hours weekly or biweekly and by appointment.
During semesters for which Georgia Tech’s course surveys included questions about the TA for the course, my students consistently rated me greater than 4.5 out of 5, with my highest scores in presentation of material.
Awards
In the Spring of 2011 I was chosen as the School of Math’s undergraduate nominee for the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning’s Outstanding TA Award for my work in 2010. As part of this process, I assembled a portfolio representing my TA experience and my student evaluations, including four letters of recommendation—two from professors I had worked with, and two from former students.
Courses
- Fall 2008
- MATH 1712 Survey of Calculus
- MATH 1712 is a course designed to present a high-level overview of calculus concepts, with an emphasis on applications. The course began with a review of fundamental precalculus concepts (exponents and logs, trig, etc.) and covered material through basic multivariable calculus (partial derivatives, multivariable optimization). Due to a logistical issue, there were twice the normal number of students in my section.
- Fall 2009
- MATH 1501 Calculus I
- MATH 1501 is an introductory calculus course covering basic differential and integral calculus, beginning with limits and ending with volumes of solids of revolution.
- Spring 2010
- MATH 1502 Calculus II
- My Spring 2010 section was piloting a new textbook and the complementary online homework solution. This section of Calculus II spent the initial third of the course covering more advanced calculus concepts including convergence of sequences and series and polynomial approximations and the final two thirds covering basic linear algebra through computing eigenvalues.
- Fall 2010
- MATH 2401 Calculus III
- MATH 2401 is Georgia Tech's multivariable calculus course. Topics included parial and directional derivatives, gradients, total derivatives of vector-valued functions, multivariable optimization, volume intergrals, line integrals, and surface integrals.
- Spring 2011
- MATH 1502 Calculus II
- This section of course used a new linear algebra textbook that had been selected by the School of Math the previous semester. Additionally, the course covered some elementary differential equations (separable and first-order linear).
- Fall 2011
- MATH 2401 Calculus III
- In Fall 2011 I TAed two sections of Calculus III lead by different professors. While the two sections covered the same material, the professors chose to emphasize different concepts in lecture. I feel that the variety in the presentation of the material helped me develop my ability to present it.