Teaching
My main teaching involves a final year module on Mineral Resources. The module makes use of an innovative team project in which students are placed into companies with budgets to search for gold. The project runs over 6 weeks and is assessed via an interim Phase 1 verbal report and a final Phase 2 written report. Students peer assess each other to determine individual marks. The module and combines research-connected teaching, active learning and authentic assessment. For session 2020-21 this was successfully delivered and completed in virtual sessions using MS Teams, because COVID-19 restrictions prevented face-to-face teaching. As one student responded: "I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you put into digitising the course this semester and all the work you did over Christmas to get our marks back. I looked forward to Friday mornings [timetabled virtual sessions] as they felt as close to normal, scheduled labs as we can get at the moment. It's been a fun and challenging module".
I also teach IT sessions on the use of Excel and Advanced Word to Year 1 Earth Science students; EndNote for automated citing and referencing, and software for spatial data plotting to Year 2 Earth Science students; a week on granitoid rocks and porphyry copper mineralisation to Year 2 Earth Science students; sessions on the politics, economy and sustainability of mineral resource supply to Year 1 Geography students.