Welcome!
If you had told me a few years ago that I would have an interest in teaching, I wouldn't have believed you (having a mother who teaches 1st grade would dissuade anyone from teaching!). But the more I learn about pedagogy, case study teaching, cooperative learning, and learner-centered teaching and the more experience I get designing and teaching classes, the more I enjoy it. I love the challenge of helping students learn to think critically and learn new problem-solving skills.
On this page, you will find some information on classes I have taught, my teaching philosophy, my curriculum vitae, and some website links that I have found useful.
Please contact me if you have any questions: midavis1@vt.edu.
Teaching experience:
- Designed and taught Visual Basic Programming for Natural Resource Scientists (2007):
- View the class syllabus.
- View the students' group projects--computer programs developed by the students for the Conservation Management Institute and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland fisheries.
- Designed and taught webpage design for fisheries and wildlife graduate students (2007):
- View the class handout.
- Currently working on a case study book with B. R. Murphy and D. W. Willis: Case Studies in Fisheries Conservation and Management, to be published by the American Fisheries Society.
Teaching philosophy: view my teaching philosophy.
Curriculum vitae: view my CV.
Some useful teaching-related links:
Virginia Tech:
- Graduate Education Development Institute (GEDI)
- Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Future Professoriate Graduate Certificate
Other: