Teaching was an important part of my job in academia. My goal in teaching was to help the students to master the key message of the course, teach them to understand why and to what extent the details matter, and enable them to understand the concepts as if they developed the material on their own. To achieve this goal, I combine the course material with simple, intuitive, and tangible real-world examples and phenomena, preferably by asking students to provide their own examples. My students have never been asked to memorize anything and instead, they learn to think critically and logically. I used the strength of different teaching methods to achieve my teaching goals. I learned a variety of methods over time and enriched my knowledge of teaching by readings, personal experience (as a student, as an instructor, and from my previous jobs), teaching workshops, and conferences.

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Interests

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Field Courses: Environmental, Development, Labor, and Education Economics, International Trade

Core Courses: Principle, Intermediate, and Advanced Microeconomics; Principle and Intermediate Macroeconomics; Undergraduate and Advanced Econometrics; Statistics; Mathematics

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Awards

• Received "Graduate Instructor of the Year" award from Virginia Tech Department of Economics, 2019

• Department’s nominee for the Virginia Tech "Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award", 2018

• Recognized by Virginia Tech Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research "Thank a Teacher" program for teaching excellence and effectiveness, 2019

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Workshop

• Higher Education Pedagogy, Virginia Tech, 2019

• Symposium on Teaching Large Classes, Virginia Tech, 2019

• Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence (VTGRATE) tools for teaching workshop: ten tangible tips for instructors, VTech, 2018

• 15th Annual Economics Teaching Workshop, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2016