Teaching
As a teacher, I enable students to become lifelong learners and scientifically literate citizens, regardless of their ultimate career choice. The central goal of my teaching is to equip my students with critical thinking skills that will enable them to approach complex problems, identify biases, evaluate complex trade-offs, and make informed decisions, scientific or otherwise. I work towards this goal by teaching and practicing critical thinking as my primary learning objective. Students in my classes learn to separate science arguments from values arguments, and to identify the role of science in a range of complex decisions. In addition, I focus on broadly relevant skills, engage students in hands-on and participatory learning, assess outcomes frequently, and incorporate diverse perspectives.
Science and Critical Thinking aka “Calling Bullshit” (ESPM 3921)
The main goal of this course is for students develop critical thinking tools and cultivate scientific skepticism for evaluating claims encountered in scientific papers, popular press articles, or on social media. Case studies focus on environmental science, but also include public policy and health to demonstrate the range of ways in which data and science can be used or misused to support a position. 
Introduction to Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation Biology (FW2001)
The main goal of the course is to provide a broad overview of important issues in fisheries, wildlife, and conservation biology, improving students’ capacity to collaborate with other professionals in environmental or ecological disciplines. The course is writing intensive, with an in-class research project forming the basis of multiple writing assignments and a final research paper. 
Resources and examples
Examples of teaching materials demonstrating my pedagogical approach.
“Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a [person] is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.”
― John Alexander Smith, 1914