Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness

Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness Daniel Diaz Vidal Please visit my website at http://www.danieldiazvidal.com for more information Table of Contents References and relevant individuals to this document Teaching experience summary and some evaluation statistics TA evaluations at UC Davis from professors and students Additional letters of reference 17 Syllabi at Wabash College1 24 Student evaluations at Wabash College2 48 Reflections on teaching at Wabash College 78 Important Note: Wabash College conducts 15 minute student interviews with a random selection of 20 students to evaluate an instructor’s performance Prof Joyce Burnette will be submitting 20 student interview evaluations with her letter of recommendation, but feel free to request those from her if you did not get them burnettj@wabash.edu On the spring of 2016 I will be teaching a new senior level course on Labor Economics, please request my working Syllabus if you are interested Please use the common evaluation supplied as a benchmark for my own feedback My three references for the 2015/16 job market:    Joyce Burnette, Wabash College burnettj@wabash.edu Gregory Clark, UC Davis gclark@ucdavis.edu Peter Mikek, Wabash College mikekp@wabash.edu People I worked for as a TA at UC Davis:         Mark Siegler* (American Economic History Professor, I was his TA) msiegler@saclink.csus.edu Janine Wilson (American Economic History Professor, I was her TA) jlflathmann@ucdavis.edu Lisa Schulkind* (Industrial Organization Professor, I was her TA) lschulki@uncc.edu Craig Benham (Math Professor, I was his TA) cjbenham@ucdavis.edu Becca Thomases (Math Professor, I was his TA) thomases@math.ucdavis.edu San Walcott (Math Professor, I was his TA) samwalcott@gmail.com Tena Denena (Math Coordinator in charge of hiring TAs) tdenena@math.ucdavis.edu Duane Kouba* (Math Lecturer, I was his TA) kouba@math.ucdavis.edu Division III Chair at Wabash College:  Stephen Morillo* (My) morillos@wabash.edu *They should remember me fairly quickly when contacted TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Lecturer/Professor) Wabash College: Introduction to Economics, Spanish Economic History, The Economics of Migrations, Chilean Economic History (taught in Spanish), Enduring Questions (Writing and Critical Thinking Course), Economics Through Film (Economics of Crime, Natural Resource Economics, Public Economics, American Economic History), Labor Economics (Spring 2016) Sonoma State University: Introduction to Macroeconomics (Fall and Spring 2013) and Introduction to Microeconomics, Fall 2013 University of Seville, ISA, ICS and other study abroad programs: Comparative Economic Systems, Spanish Economic History, European Economic Integration, European Marketing and International business, 2003-2008 San Diego State University: sections of Introduction to Economics (Macro/Micro), 2001-2003, Remedial tutoring TEACHING EVALUATIONS (Lecturer/Professor) Introduction to Economics Spring 2014 Department of Economics, Wabash College Dr Diaz College Avg Professor Interest in the student 4.8/5 4.3/5 Professor involvement with student concerns 4.7/5 4/5 Professor quality 4.7/5 4.1/5 Professor interest in teaching 4.9/5 4.4/5 Professor availability 4.9/5 4.3/5 60% response, 30 students Enduring Questions (critical thinking/writing course) Spring 2014 Department of Economics, Wabash College Dr Diaz College Avg Professor Interest in the student 5/5 4.3/5 Professor involvement with student concerns 4.9/5 4/5 Professor quality 4.7/5 4.1/5 Professor interest in teaching 4.9/5 4.4/5 Professor availability 4.9/5 4.3/5 50% response, 14 students TEACHING EXPERIENCE (TA) University of California, Davis: T.A for Math 15A, 17A,17B and 17C (Calculus for Biology and Science), American Economic History, World Economic History, Industrial Organization, Intermediate Microeconomics, Introduction to Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and Native American Studies 1A among other courses American Economic History (Dr Janine Wilson) Fall 2012 Department of Economics, UC Davis Dr Diaz College Avg TA clarity 4.67/5 N/A TA communication 4.74/5 N/A TA availability 4.73/5 N/A TA section value 4.74/5 N/A TA overall performance 4.74/5 N/A Professor Evaluation of Dr Diaz’s work 93% response, 76 students Industrial Organization (Dr Lisa Schulkind) Spring 2012 Department of Economics, UC Davis Dr Diaz College Avg TA clarity 4.71/5 N/A TA communication 4.63/5 N/A TA availability 4.70/5 N/A TA section value 4.43/5 N/A TA overall performance 4.63/5 N/A 5/5 N/A Professor Evaluation of Dr Diaz’s work 70% response, 71 students