TEACHING EXPERIENCE

EDUC 6168: Master's Seminar in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (Spring 2025- UPenn, Graduate School of Education)
This seminar explores key foundational questions for graduate-level work: How is academic knowledge formed and reproduced? How do we engage with and interrogate the scholarly research? And, how do we participate in the academic conversation around a topic? The Master's Seminar introduces students to academic discourse, disciplinary writing conventions, and research practices. As part of this course, students are guided through preparing a literature review on a topic of their choice. This review, in turn, forms the foundation for their Capstone Proposal and Project that are required for the completion of the M.S.Ed. degree.

EDUC 6116: Foundations of Teaching and Learning  (Fall 2024 - UPenn, Graduate School of Education)
The course explores theoretical and empirical perspectives on the questions: What is knowledge and knowing? What is learning? What is teaching? How do contexts influence teaching, knowing, and learning? A central goal of the course is to encourage students to consider these questions and their interconnections for themselves, to examine ways scholars and practitioners have answered them, and to develop an analytical framework to use in examining contemporary practices in settings that include formal and informal, urban and international.

EDUC 850: Introduction to Research Methods in Education  (Fall 2024, Fall 2023 - Drexel University, School of Education)
Introduces students to the process of educational research. Although all the components of the process of designing and conducting research will be introduced in this course, the focus will be on understanding the difference between the paradigms underlying quantitative and qualitative educational research, the respective underlying assumptions and worldviews. The course (a) emphasizes qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches and paradigms underlying those approaches; (b) introduces students to ethical implications of research; (c) enables students to become more effective consumers of research; (d) prepares students for subsequent and related courses; (e) proves a foundation for students to be able to conduct original research that may lead to the doctoral dissertation.

EDPO 632: Ethics and Educational Policymaking  (Summer 2022 - Drexel University, School of Education)
The critical nature of ethics in educational policy-making is closely examined in this course.  We will first explore major theories of ethics that have developed over the course of recent centuries, so as to provide students with different lenses through which to look at ethical challenges, educational or otherwise. Then, we go on to specifically apply these theories through careful analyses of several case studies of educational issues that seem to present ethical dilemmas.

EDPO 628: American Educational Policy and U.S. Competitiveness (Winter 2021 - Drexel University, School of Education)
Through the lens of educational policy, this course explores the ties between and among the K-12 education system, higher education, and other post-secondary educational enterprises, and then their connection to economic and workforce development. Linkages and policies are examined in the contexts of what global competitiveness means at the national, state, and local levels.

Course Title: EDCR 750: Educational History and Foundation (Winter 2021)
The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive examination of the history and foundations of education in the United States. This examination will focus on the philosophical assumptions that guide educational issues across the PK-20 academic continuum.

Course Title: EDCR 514: Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Education (Winter 2020)
The goal of this course is to provide students with a foundational knowledge of the constructs of diversity, equity, and social justice as it relates to organizations and systems. Further this course is designed to prepare students to be knowledgeable of individual’s biases toward race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, social and economic status, political ideology, age, and how these contribute to forms discrimination and oppression. In addition, this course will expose students to the intersection of theories and strategies that can be used to influence positive change in affirming diversity, equity, and social justice in organizations and systems.

Guest Lecturer for EDUC 838: Qualitative Research and Data Analysis
Fall 2022 -  Drexel University, School of Education
Lecture Title: Lessons Learned Collecting, Coding, and Presenting Qualitative Data

Academic Coach for Drexel Pathway to Medical School (DPMS) Program,
July 2020-Dec. 2021 -  Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Professional Studies
The Drexel Pathway to Medical School (DPMS) program is a master of science degree designed for talented, underserved students who have interest in attending Drexel's MD program and have completed traditional pre-med coursework as well as the MCAT prior to applying.

Remote Course Facilitator for ENTP250: Ideation
Instructor: Dr. Ozlem Ogutveren-Gonul
Sept. 2020-Dec. 2020 -  Close School of Entrepreneurship, Drexel University 

Innovation is the driving force behind today’s economy and ideation supports an individual’s ability to innovate. This course provides students with tools, methods and self‐reflection techniques necessary to bring new ideas into reality. Through creative innovation, successful entrepreneurs not only create new ventures but also re-invent companies to remain competitive in an ever-changing market. Students in this course will use ideation techniques to develop new ideas, change or build upon established practices and apply these techniques in approaching and analyzing business situations. Students will be able to apply creative skills more effectively both personally and professionally.