Teo teaches courses in the College of Education at the University of North Texas in both the Educational Psychology and Teacher Education & Administration Departments.

My course designs are informed by orientation as a critical social-constructivist. What does that mean? I assume that learning is fundamentally social (even if you’re reading a book, someone wrote that book, someone taught you to read, and you bring your prior experience and ideas to the table to make sense of that book). Perhaps most importantly, all learning happens in the context of our social and cultural worlds which include interlocking systems of oppression that shape learning opportunities for different people in different ways.

What does this mean about how I design for your learning? (1) I’ll always design around social interaction; even if some of your work starts out solo you’ll always end up working in small groups and in whole class discussions to make sense of it. (2) Learning occurs over time through apprenticeship and is reflected in changes in learners’ practice. That means that I’m as much of a learner as I learn from your perspectives and experiences as you are a learner shifting how you design for future students because of the ideas and experience I share. (3) Individuals bring unique experiences and viewpoints that must be centered in order for us to do our work together; dialogue is essential to talk across differences, value differences, and construct common understanding. (4) Learning new ideas is great, but it must be applied to transform the experiences of others in addressing injustices. I draw on these orientations and commitments in all of the courses that I teach (described below).

UnderGrad Courses

EDCI 3830 – Teaching & Learning Processes and evaluation

This course examines the processes of human learning and development as they relate to teaching in diverse EC-12 classroom settings. Understanding of these processes is applied to lesson analysis, instructional strategies, and assessment.

Details on the Positionality in Practice project can be found here.

EPSY 2010 – How People learn

This course examines supports teacher candidates to examine theories of learning early in their teacher preparation program. Students are are introduced to multiple sociocultural / critical theoretical lenses on teaching and provided supported for using those lenses to analyze learning “in the wild” (outside of the classroom).

Graduate Courses

Qualitative Research Methods

This course focuses on the knowledge and skill necessary for systematic and rigorous naturalistic research including observation, interviewing, and other data collection procedures as well as data analysis techniques and proposal writing practices.

Research Methods as Contexts for Learning

This course supports graduate students to develop methodological competence in bridging research traditions towards research transforming conceptualizations of learning phenomena towards more just futures in research-partnerships and teaching/learning designs.

video analysis methods

This course supports students to examine the theory underlying video research and to develop systematic ways for the design of video-based studies including asking research questions, collecting data, iterative analytical processes, and persuasive and thorough reporting of findings.

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