Teaching Materials
This digital hub shows example of course resources developed during my teaching career, reflecting my commitment to open, accessible, and structured teaching design.
Statistical Session Slides
Session slides at the beginning of a 3h statistic session. Focusing on enforcing chanllenging concepts identified in students' pre-quiz and go through example questions.
Lecture Slides
From my guest lecture session. Intergrated machine learning pipeline with a spatial omic dataset. The students were able to code along the way using the notebook in class.
Coding notebook
Review Slides
Review slides at the beginning of a discussion session. Focus on review lecture and give practice questions that are similar to their following group activity.
Student and Instructor Evaluations
This section provides a summary of feedback collected from students and the course instructor, highlighting the effectiveness of my teaching materials in supporting diverse learning needs and fostering academic growth across engineering and biology disciplines.
Student Evaluation
“Rita is very patient and kind! She is very good at stats as well. She has always been very patient with me, even as I struggled to understand most of these concepts. ”
“Rita was very helpful in explaning concepts in both the lab and stats sessions, and was very responsive to emails.”
"Rita was extremely helpful and understanding, her comments were always constructive and helped me develop as a writer. Apart from the academic goals of our mentoring sessions, we were also able to talk about other school and life issues which I really appreciated.
"Rita was an amazing instructor, and was really excellent in being able to help with teaching the stats portion of the class. In addition, she was present for the lab sections and was incredibly helpful
in helping ensure the labs run smoothly and correctly for all the students."
"Thank you, Rita! You are a big portion of why I am keeping up in Genetics!"
Instructor Evaluation
"Rita did an outstanding job! She helped enable the exam and Assignment transition to Gradescope and teach the other IA's. She was genuinely caring and supportive of the students, while also maintaining high standards."
"Rita is an excellent TA. She is prepared, offers great feedback and makes students feel comfortable discussing and sharing their work with her. She was a great addition to the class and the students benefited from her presence."
“Rita seems to really enjoy being an IA and I have heard nothing but positive feedback about the teaching team as a whole. She has also helped me design exam questions that are clear for the students and ensures that they are the right level of difficulty and length, which has been so helpful!”
Student Work Examples
Lab Presentation Slides
Lab presentation slides from an undergraduate Amgen Scholar that I mentored for 10 weeks. These slides were made roughly 4 week after the program start, showing progress of learning and planning.