Educator Development
Instructors play a vital role in shaping student success across all learning environments. Beyond delivering content, effective educators engage in continuous reflection, collaborate with colleagues, and participate in professional learning to enhance their teaching practice. Equally important is building a community with fellow educators, a space where ideas can be exchanged, challenges discussed, and new approaches explored. This spirit of collaboration and shared growth fosters more responsive, inclusive, and innovative teaching. By combining reflective practice, peer support, and evidence-based strategies, educators can create meaningful learning experiences and continue to evolve in their professional roles.
Educational research is a broad field that spans diverse areas such as pedagogy, curriculum, policy, and professional practice. My research focuses on academic development, the intersection of literature and education, and autoethnographic explorations of academics’ experiences of belonging, identity, and professional life.
I am particularly interested in academic development through professional learning, with a focus on reflective practice, both in teaching and curriculum design, and on the lived experiences of being and belonging as an educator.
Developing and employing effective instructional design can elicit appropriate cognitive processes and in turn, facilitate student learning.
