Professional Development

Technical Training, Webinars, & Seminars attended on a range of topics

Offered at Wayne State University

  • Completed Virtual Accessibility Training and Web Communications Training (July 2020). And the 2020 KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training (November 2020).
  • Sessions offered by WSU’s Office for Teaching & Learning (OTL)
  • OTL Webinar: AI: What Instructors Need to Know held on August 22, 2023.
  • OTL Webinar: Panel Discussion: AI in STEM Education held on March 21, 2023.
  • eLearning Canvas Course overview, offered by Study Skills Academy in the Academic Success Center; Accessibility in Word and PowerPoint; Captioning, Immersive Reader, and Universal Design; Canvas Accessibility (last three offered by SDS).
  • Participated in OTL’s Online Course Design Sprint offered through Canvas. Participated in 10 Ways to Support Students Online (pandemic ed.); Enhancing your Online Course with Engaging Content; Making Online Courses Accessible to All Students; Tools for Creating Whiteboard-style Lectures Online; MS Teams & Stream for Online Course Engagement.
  • OTL Webinar: 7 Tips to Help Students Stay Engaged and Connected Online held on April 28, 2021 and Looking Ahead: Leveraging the Lessons of Virtual Teaching held on May 10, 2021
  • Transferred Students, Retained Success Panel (December 2020). Required Training: The 2020 KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training (November 2020).
  • Required Training: Completed Virtual Accessibility Training and Web Communications Training (July 2020) for my role as Monitor Coordinator.
  • Spring/Summer 2018 & 2019– Participated in the GTA Mentoring and Student Success and Motivation Workshop offered by my department.
  • Winter 2019 – Participated in QE Rubric Piloting Session and provided feedback on the proposed rubric for assessing QE courses.
  • Winter 2019 – Attended Academic Leadership Perspectives Workshop.
  • Fall 2018 – Attended the Designing Assessment for Quantitative Experience Gen. Ed. Courses workshop.
  • Spring/Summer 2017 – Participated in the Math Retreat with Math Education faculty in COE to create a new Specialist Certificate in elementary mathematics.

Offered outside of Wayne State University

  • I attended Course Hero’s webinar: Pedagogies of Care in the Age of AI, held on November 10, 2023.
  • I attended the Elevate Your Teaching Productivity with GenAI sponsored by Course Hero, held on September 22, 2023. I participated in Course Hero’s month long (October, 2023) course entitled Introducing AI Academy. As a follow-up to the AI Academy, I served on the AI Academy Focus Group held on November 28, 2023 to reflect on the experience had during the course.
  • I attended the Webinar sponsored by Alchemy entitled: Shaping the Future: Policy Considerations for AI in Higher Education Institutions, held on August 10, 2023.
  • [Hybrid Workshop] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2022: Initiating, Sustaining, and Researching Mathematics Department Transformation of Introductory Courses for STEM Majors, March 16, 2022 – March 18, 2022, sponsored by the Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI).
  • Michigan AMTE Conversations Among Colleagues – Reimagining Opportunities for Mathematics Teacher Learning: Rerouting, Refocusing, and Beyond, March 2021.
  • Fall 2015 – Attended the Teaching Mathematics Content Courses conference at U of M Ann Arbor.