Joe Crawford

Joe Crawford

Plant Physiologist, Geneticist, Dreamer, Junk Engineer

Teaching

BIO 106: Organismal Biology

Undergraduate Lecture and Lab Course, Washington State University, School of Biological Sciences Department, 2020

I TA for BIO106 and I wish that I had access to such a great course back when I was an undergraduate. The class teaches the foundational concepts of biology that enable generalizable understanding of life at micro, macro, and global scales. As a TA, I teach discovery-based learning in small(er) sections where students independently run experiments. My personal teaching style comes through in our class intro’s and the quiz material that I write. The main tenets of my teaching philosophy are:

Teaching English in China

Undergraduate Oral English, East China Institute of Technology; Inner Mongolia Normal University; and Teachall Consulting, 2009

I taught English as Second Language (ESL) in China for three years at the college/adult level. And while I was there I took Chinese language courses at Beijing Radio and Television University in Beijing. Most of my work was engaging students in the practice of conversational english. The following are some photographs and summaries of the Universities and venues I taught at.