Teaching Materials

With the rise of LLMs and generative "AI" tools, I and many educators had to grow more creative and deliberate in how we achieve our learning goals inside the classroom. For myself, this meant reassessing my learning goals and getting to the core of what I hoped to achieve in the classroom. In an ethics class, what I would hope from my students is threefold: 1) they read and retain some of the lead ethical frameworks that exist, 2) they form opinions on the benefits and drawb

I created supplemental materials to go along with some of the early readings in my lower-level philosophy classes. As introductory philosophy classrooms are where many students encounter this material formally for the first time, I find offering supplemental materials which help guide the students to key points in the reading help break the reading into more manageable steps. Initially I used the reading guides as take-home homework, to be turned in for points. But with the r

Slides in my classroom serve several purposes Give the students something to look at and visually connect to the reading Organize the structure of the day's lesson Keep me on track and prevent the students from distracting me too much I don't put a ton of information on the slides, but rather use them for engagement and visual aids to talk through the material. For instance, when discussing the Socratic ethical doctrine that no one knowingly aims for the bad, my slide has an

Click through below for a document which contains sample syllabi from a variety of classes I teach, including Introduction to Philosophy through Fiction, Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, Introduction to Ethics, History of Philosophy of Science, Engineering Ethics, and Ancient Philosophy. This is not an exhaustive document of all the courses I have experience teaching; I teach an advanced logic course which includes predicate derivations; a 2-semester ancient philo