My teaching interests are in introductory courses and computational science classes, where helping students learn the process of doing science is at least as important as mastery of the particular techniques or facts covered in the curriculum. In these cases, going beyond lecturing, and experimenting with peer- and activity-based learning --- while testing to see what works and what doesn't --- has been valuable.

I have a Teaching Statement online and available as a PDF, as well as a Teaching Dossier.

This summer, with with Jonathan Sievers, I taught a week-long summer school on Parallel Computing for Astrophysics; earlier in the year, the two of us also taught a Department of Astronomy mini-course entitled Scientific Computing for Astro Grad Students.

In spring, I taught AST222: Galaxies and Cosmology at the University of Toronto, Jan-Apr 2008; this is a second-year core course for Astronmy majors.

I also recently had the opportunity to teach a course entitled The Search for Life in the Universe at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It covered a lot of material — astronomy, planetary science, chemistry, biology — and was a lot of fun.

In a broader sense of `teaching', I (with John Everett, and now with Jon Braithwaite) created and lead the Astrophysical Fluids Seminar at the University of Toronto, which includes people from the Astronomy and Physics departments as well as CITA. I'm also running `online journal clubs' for Fluids and Computational Astrophysics, and led a FLASH workshop at CITA.