Teaching Philosophy
“Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.”
~ Anatole France
Courses taught
Faculty of Education; Faculty of Natural Resources Management; Faculty of Science & Environmental Studies; Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, Lakehead University
January 2022 - Present
• BIOL 3152 (Biogeography)
• EDUC 4034 (Social Studies)
• EDUC 4375 (Democracy and Education)
• EDUC 5636 (Place-Based Education)
• GEOG 3471 (Environmental Assessment and Management)
• NRMT 2054 (Indigenous Peoples and Natural Resources)
• OUTD 2511 (Research Methods)
• UNIV 1016 (First Year Seminar: Enough is ENOUGH! Minimalism as Privilege or as a Way of Life?")*
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences; School of Environmental Sciences; Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
January 2014 - Present
• BUS 6500 (Governance for Sustainability)
• ENVS 3000 (Nature Interpretation)
• GEOG 1220 (Human Impact on the Environment)
• GEOG 2210 (Environment and Resources)
• GEOG 2260 (Applied Human Geography)*
• GEOG 3210 (Indigenous-Settler Relationships in Environmental Governance)
• GEOG 3490 (Tourism and the Environment): in-class and d/e*
• GEOG 4390 (Rural Geography Seminar)*
• GEOG 4690 (Geographic Field Research - Maine)*
• SOC 2280 (Society and Environment)
• UNIV 1200 (First-Year Seminar: “Staking a Claim: Exploring Expression through Graffiti and other Informal Public Art”): * student work featured on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLckJy2kHYX2DOf6E2OIxAwVedGxqCmZHE
Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo
May 2010 - August 2016
• ERS 341 (Conservation and Restoration Practice): field course
• ERS 360 (Nature: Art, Myth, and Folklore): field course*
• ENVS 444/REC 437 (Ecosystem & Resource Management in Parks/Natural Areas)
• GEOG 101 (Human Geography)
• GEOG 201 (Fluvial Geomorphology)
• GEOG/REC 333 (Recreation Geography)
• GEOG 430A (Rouge National Urban Park: Geographic Interpretation, Communication, and Outreach in Practice): field course*
School of Liberal Studies, Conestoga College
· LIBS 1560: “Our Domain: Geography and Human Populations”
· provided content for a 42-hour/3 credit fully online course (14 weeks of instruction), including analysis and planning, content preparation, instructional design, and development for OntarioLearn
• worked with Desire2Learn Curriculum Consultants, Instructional Designers, Vendors, Animators, Voice Actors, etc. to produce storyboards and present material through gamification
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca University
· GEOG 200/GLST 200 (World Regional Geography)
· GEOG 201 (Introductory Human Geography)
· GEOG 302 (The Canadian North)