Fresh Faces: Lab welcomes 9 new faculty

Previous work experience: Working at Carl Schurz High School for nine years and teaching with After School Matters in programs specifically dedicated to makerspace projects. What should students know about your style of teaching? “My style of teaching is very hands-off, but I can be very supportive and I can be extremely capable of finding ways to solve an issue that maybe I don’t know of. I’...

Previous work experience: English teacher at the Latin School What should students know about your style of teaching? “I like it to be student centered. We are a community of learners who are constructing our knowledge together, and so what does that look like in a class — well you might sit in a circle that I am part of, engaging in conversation that I don't want to go through me where I ...

Previous work experience: Teaching at Carl Schurz High School for 10 years.  What should students know about your style of teaching? “I’m all about making mistakes. I’m all about taking risks. I am all about putting our errors and the process of learning, I’m all about making that visible and transparent and showing and really celebrating our failures and, you know, things like that,...

Previous work experience: Long-term orchestra sub last year. Pursued graduate and undergraduate degrees at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, respectively. What should students know about your style of teaching? “I appreciate student input, and I value student input and I value fun, and I think all that is key to the learning experience. I want to be present in more ways l...

Previous work experience: Worked as college counselor at New Trier Township High School for 25 years.  What should students know about your counseling style?  “I'm a little blunt, and I am a partner with you in your post-secondary planning. So I might make suggestions, but it’s always up to you, the student, to tell me what you want and to steer me in your direction. It's your path, and ...

Previous work experience: Taught at UIC College Prep  What should students know about your style of teaching? “I think teaching is collaborative. I think especially math, the way that you get good at math is through getting your hands messy, right — like getting in there trying things out, failing, getting it wrong, going back, double checking your work, figuring out where you lost that ...

Previous work experience: GEMS World Academy Chicago What should students know about your style of teaching? “I try to bring humor and joy into the classroom. I try to keep my students relaxed ’cause I think that’s when they do their best work. I’m also very, very committed to making sure my students feel seen and heard for who they are in my classroom and I also think one of my philoso...

Previous work experience: Teaching at boarding school in the Swiss Alps for four years What should students know about your style of teaching? “I think that the relationships and the rapport are really important. Especially for someone in my position because I’ll be taking over for Ms. Himmelfarb, and I think it’s really natural and understandable in that position that students want to ...

Previous work experience: Director of public practice at the Smart Museum of Art   What should students know about your style of teaching? “Very discursive, right? So it's student-centered, student-led. I'm less interested in form and function of art than I am in sort of its real-world use value, if that makes sense. Sort of like how we might approach problems and use our creative capacit...