Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching Philosophy

My teaching centers on helping students build agency, judgment, and confidence in technology-rich learning environments. I design courses that make expectations visible, invite reflection, and connect theory to authentic intellectual work. I integrate artificial intelligence, extended reality (XR), and learning analytics in ways that strengthen transparency, inclusivity, and formative feedback rather than turning technology into a shortcut.

Graduate Teaching

Teach and co-teach graduate courses in assessment, literature review, and research methods across Purdue and ConnectEd contexts.

Course Design

Redesign online and hybrid learning experiences with clear onboarding, scaffolded practice, and transparent feedback routines.

Mentoring

Mentor doctoral students, tutors, and early-career scholars on research design, academic writing, and ethical AI use.

Current Teaching

EDCI 557 course welcome and module structure.

Weekly overview videos that scaffold each module.

Purdue University · Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Course Design, Facilitation, and Graduate Mentoring

At Purdue, I teach and co-teach graduate courses that help learners connect instructional design theory with authentic evaluation, writing, and research practice.

• EDCI 557 Strategic Assessment & Evaluation: redesigned the fully online format with multimedia onboarding, weekly overview videos, and scaffolded Brightspace activities for working professionals.
• EDCI 676 Writing a Literature Review: co-instruct the graduate seminar and guide doctoral students through synthesis mapping, citation management, and ethical AI-supported search strategies.
• Graduate advising and mentoring: provide formative feedback on dissertation proposals, systematic reviews, and AI-integrated design projects while modeling peer-review routines and scholarly critique.

Teaching & Instructional Leadership Across Contexts

ConnectEd · Global Chinese Research Community / Beijing Normal University

Research Methods and Teacher Professionalism

Across synchronous online and hybrid settings, I have taught graduate research methods and teacher professionalism with an emphasis on multilingual support, reflective practice, and practical research workflows.

• MET 201 Meta-analysis: associate instructor for a 250-learner cohort, demonstrating NVivo, R, and JASP workflows and hosting bilingual troubleshooting labs for early-career researchers.
• Scholarly mentoring: lead monthly clinics on Ph.D. application strategy, English-language publishing, and data visualization for scholars across China, Singapore, and the U.S.
• English Language Teacher Professionalism: co-taught a hybrid course for pre- and in-service teachers, emphasizing reflective practice and culturally responsive digital pedagogy.

Indiana University Bloomington · Hamilton Lugar School

Chinese Flagship Instruction and Program Leadership

As full-time visiting faculty and assessment coordinator in the Chinese Flagship Program, I taught across the curriculum while helping sustain advanced language learning, tutoring, and capstone preparation.

• Courses taught: led courses from elementary to capstone levels, including Advanced Academic Chinese Writing, Chinese in Humanities, and Fourth-Year Chinese.
• Program design: developed immersive community-based projects and genre-driven writing workshops that supported advanced proficiency and capstone preparation.
• Tutor leadership: recruited, trained, and supervised 200+ tutors and co-designed a blended tutoring model that supported retention and instructional continuity.

Teaching in Practice

AI teacher PD

Leading design studios that help educators experiment with inclusive, AI-enabled assessment practices.

Capstone success

Collaborating with faculty mentors to guide learners through internships, needs assessments, and OPI benchmarks.

Culture activities with students

Building community-based projects that connect language proficiency with cultural identity work.

Mentoring & Recognition

Mentoring & Community Building

Supporting Emerging Scholars and Tutor Leaders

My mentoring extends beyond the classroom into design studios, communities of practice, and tutoring pipelines that help students and early-career scholars participate more fully in research and teaching.

• AI & Learning Innovation Studios: facilitate design charrettes for Purdue graduate students exploring GenAI for assessment, accessibility, and workforce upskilling.
• ConnectEd Community of Practice: curate open-access resource banks, moderate cross-institutional reading groups, and coach emerging scholars on IRB, grant writing, and conference proposals.
• Tutor leadership pipeline: built competency-based workshops, observation rubrics, and feedback loops that prepared tutors to become instructors and graduate students in LDT and Applied Linguistics.

Highlights & Recognitions

Teaching-Related Impact

My teaching work is closely connected to course design, faculty development, and collaborative research on learning technologies.

• Course design impact: the Strategic Assessment & Evaluation redesign has been cited in departmental feedback for clarity, accessibility, and learner satisfaction.
• Community leadership: invited speaker for instructional design seminars at Old Dominion University, Boise State University, and Purdue’s P-12 Conference.
• Research-to-teaching translation: award-winning collaboration with Intel Labs on collaborative problem solving in conversational AI informs teacher preparation and design discussions in my courses.