My mission as teacher and mentor is to (i) instigate the curiosity in observing nature (ii) provoke students about questioning the world around them and (iii) understand how science is important in every days life. I have had extensive teaching experience covering a broad array of lecture, laboratory, and field courses, as Main instructor, or Guest Lecturer, to undergraduate and graduate levels. My broad research and teaching experience have prepared me to teach graduate and undergraduate level courses in Biology, Invertebrate Zoology, Entomology, Evolution, Phylogenetics and Systematics. Bellow, I present some of course I taught as Main or Co-Instructor.
In 2017, with students from the "Diversity of Life"course in the Education for the Countryside Population program, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
This college degree program is designed to prepare teachers for elementary schools in remote regions of Brazil. Most students are people of color, some originated from traditional communities, such as the Quilombos – historically founded by Afro-Brazilians to scape slavery in the colonial period