TeachingI have spent nearly all of my adult life teaching. I have facilitated learning in a variety of settings, including traditional university classrooms, online courses, public middle and high schools, social service agencies catering to homeless youth, outdoor education programs, and community-based settings that bring people with a wide variety of educational backgrounds together. In all of these venues, I draw on Paolo Freire’s popular education learning model to cultivate a student-centered, experiential learning environment. In Freire’s framework, learners first reflect on and activate the knowledge they already possess, which has been acquired through a lifetime of formal and informal experiences. They build on this prior knowledge to ask questions about a given topic, pursuing additional learning in real-world context to deepen understanding. This refined understanding, in turn, contributes to a course of carefully facilitated action, often in support of grassroots organizations, and to new cycles of learning. UNIVERSITY-LEVEL TEACHING UNST 200: Understanding Communities (Spring 2016, online, course designer and instructor) USP 399: Justice, Environment & the City (Spring 2015, course designer and instructor) USP 430: Participatory Research Methods for Community Development (Winter 2014, teaching assistant, w/ Dr. Nathan McClintock) UNST 421: Action Research with Youth (Spring 2013, teaching assistant, w/ Dr. Lisa Bates) USP 311: Introduction to Urban Planning (Fall 2011, teaching assistant, w/ Dr. Ethan Seltzer) COMMUNITY-BASED POPULAR EDUCATION FACILITATION, COLLABORATION (selected - past and present) Anti-Displacement Pdx Coalition Community Alliance of Tenants East European Coalition Gitga'at Nation - Groundwork Portland Annual Youth Exchange Groundwork Portland Larkin Street Youth Services Líderes Verdes Living Cully Coalition Multnomah Youth Commission Outside In Parkrose Community United Church of Christ PLACE Portland Harbor Community Coalition Right 2 Survive Right 2 Dream Too Sisters of the Road Street Roots Western Regional Advocacy Project World Savvy |
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