Teaching

It all started when…

I became a 'peer leader' as a junior at Johns Hopkins. I would lead small group teaching sessions for freshmen and sophomores where the focus was on small group teaching and collaborative problem solving. I covered introductory calculus and linear algebra classes. That was in 2009.

Fast forward to 2015 and I welcomed my first Oxford undergraduates to tutorials in `Quantitative Economics,’ which is Oxford’s way of saying `statistics for economists’ or simply introductory econometrics. By 2017, I would take a fuller load at Pembroke College and teach introductory macroeconomics and core microeconomic theory as well as Oxford MPhil (Master’s) students on the Econometrics course.

My teaching philosophy is inspired by the teaching culture I experienced as a physics student: the enthusiasm of my teachers for the subject would simply spill over into the class room and worked examples were not just the best way to learn, but perhaps the only way! I believe teaching is central to the mission of any academic and take pride in the many good evaluations I have received.

Here is a small selection of what students wrote about my teaching:

Intuitive approach to topics.

Feedback has been detailed which has been helpful.

Very useful, clear explanations.

Jerome has touched on some of the deeper mathematical meaning behind the results which has been helpful.