Teaching
Students are not flowers passively waiting for droplets of knowledge. They do not all have the same educational goals or learn in the same manner. Students are individuals. Effective teaching requires an instructor who respects these differences and who is educated on the students’ needs. To meet my students’ needs, I utilize a style of instruction that is collaborative – creating a learning relationship that is bi-directional. In order to achieve this awareness of my students, I infuse my lectures with frequent activities that engage students in higher-level learning. This not only increases students’ understanding and retention of course materials (Svinicki & McKeachie, 2011), but also provides all parties with frequent and immediate feedback on how we are progressing through the material.
Graduate Student Supervision
| 2025 – Present | Calvin Cressman (Primary Supervisor) |
| 2025 – Present | Jordyn Monaghan (Primary Supervisor) |
Undergraduate Student Supervision
| 2025 | Jacqueline Berg Location: Department of Psychology, York University Role: Supervisor Independent Research Project: Survey of Phallometric Assessment Practices |
| 2024-2025 | Manahil Ayoob Location: Department of Psychology, York University Role: Supervisor Independent Research Project: Survey of Phallometric Assessment Practices |
| 2015-2016 | Brooke Bigelow, BA (degree conferred) Location: Department of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University Role: Co-Supervisor Thesis: Anger-motivated arson: Exploring risk-need-responsivity factors in a Canadian sample |
| 2013-2014 | Natalie Whitney, BA (degree conferred) Location: Department of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University Role: Co-Supervisor Thesis: How relationship, victim resistance and rape myth acceptance affect rape perception and reporting |
Courses Taught
2025, Winter |
PSYC 3310: Psychology and the Law (195 students) York University, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 2024, Fall |
PSYC 3310: Psychology and the Law (195 students) |
| 2015, Winter |
PSY602: Developmental Psychopathology (80 students) |
