Professional Development

At North Carolina State University, my professional development centered on CoAT workshops, supplemented by workshops through the Office of Faculty Excellence.

Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching Workshops

The workshops listed in this section satisfy the Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching requirements (Letter of Recommendation from Director of Graduate Teaching Programs). Selected workshops have a reflection summary, available in PDF format.

Title: Current Issues in Teaching
Attended: October 22, 2010
Facilitator: Dr. Barbi Honeycutt
Description: This workshop explores emerging issues affecting higher education, such as faculty evaluations, distance education, large class sizes, and students as consumers.

Title: Introduction to Teaching
Attended: January 19, 2011
Facilitator: Dr. Barbi Honeycutt
Description: This is a required workshop for all CoAT participants. The workshop teaches basic skills in lesson planning, course organization, active learning techniques, and assessment strategies related to effective teaching.

Title: Moral Development and The Shadow Scholar
Attended: January 28, 2011
Facilitator: Dr. Rhonda Sutton
Description: Participants were asked to read The Shadow Scholar before attending the workshop. This workshop provides an overview of moral development, discusses how this concept applies to the issues raised in The Shadow Scholar, and explores what this means for faculty and instructors who are grappling with cheating, plagiarism, and questionable academic ability among students.

Title: Teaching in the Community College Setting
Attended: March 25, 2011
Facilitator: Kristin Harkins
Description: Participants were asked to read Principles for Effective Teaching before attending the workshop. This workshop focuses on developmental learners, and it offers good advice and strategies for teaching all students, especially those at the community college level.

Title: Effective Questioning Techniques
Attended: September 8, 2011
Facilitator: Dr. Barbi Honeycutt
Description: In this workshop, participants explore strategies and techniques for asking questions effectively to generate more student participation. Discussion includes topics such as word choice, timing, types of questions, and overall presentation style.

Title: Learning Styles
Attended: September 22, 2011
Facilitator: Dr. Barbi Honeycutt
Description: This workshop discusses the different ways people learn and explore. Teaches the participants how they can make adaptations to their teaching to enhance the learning process.

Title: Incorporating Active Learning Strategies in Your Online Environment
Attended: January 23, 2012
Facilitator: Debra Dunlap Runshe
Description: This is an online workshop. This workshop explores teaching strategies and techniques to create an online learning environment that actively engages their learners and creates a sense of community.

Title: How Digital Media and the Brain Science of Attention Transform Learning
Attended: February 24, 2012
Facilitator: Molly Storment
Description: This workshop is based on Cathy Davidson's book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, focusing on Chapter 3, "Project Classroom Makeover". This workshop focuses on how technology and information can be used effectively in a modern classroom environments.

Office of Faculty Excellence Workshops

Title: Why Relying Solely on the Lecture Method Can Diminish Learning
Attended: November 3, 2010
Facilitator: Dana Gierdowski
Description: This workshop teaches alternative delivery modes for instruction. This session explores the process of "course delivery reversal," more informally known as "course flipping." The workshop focuses on how we can use writing and speaking to hold students accountable for viewing online lectures and to engage them in application within the face-to-face classroom environments.

Title: Introduction to Faculty Careers
Attended: January 22, 2011
Facilitator: Dr. Richard Felder
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to offer guidance to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are thinking about pursuing academic careers after they finish their current programs.

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Conference Presentations

Titus Barik, Michael Everett, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, David L. Roberts, and Edward F. Gehringer. "A Community College Blended Learning Classroom Experience through Artificial Intelligence in Games". Frontiers in Education (FIE 2013), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 2013.

Research Mentorship as Pedagogical Practice

Since completing the CoAT program, my primary mode of pedagogical development has been through direct research mentorship of PhD students in industry internships at Microsoft (2017–2021) and Apple (2021–present). Mentoring student researchers requires many of the same skills as classroom teaching: scoping problems to a learner's level, scaffolding complex concepts, giving formative feedback, and assessing understanding through artifacts rather than exams.

This work has resulted in 15 co-authored publications with mentees at top-tier venues including CHI, UIST, PLDI, and NAACL, two of which received Best Paper Awards (CHI 2019, CHI 2020). A full record of mentored students and publications is documented in the Research Mentorship section of this portfolio.