TEACHING

Mini-biography of teaching

I have been teaching science in some formal capacity since my second year of undergraduate studies. I enjoy the education process deeply and have completed a variety of professional development programs to expand my pedagogical expertise.

While an undergraduate at UW Parkside I was a supplemental Instruction (SI) instructor for introductory chemistry, a teaching assistant for calculus I and II, and spent many many hours tutoring nursing chemistry and math.

As a graduate student at Yale I was a teaching assistant for many different courses and taught my own ecology and biostatistics courses prior to leaving.

After graduate school, as a post-doc, I taught evolutionary biology in the summers at the Florida State University.

Since coming to California State University Long Beach and beginning work as a faculty member, I have taught biostatistics, evolutionary biology, molecular evolution, and advanced evolutionary biology.

I currently teach the biostatistics (Bio 260) and evolutionary biology (Bio 312) courses using the traditional lecture/homework style (Bio 260, spring semesters), a flipped format (Bio 312, fall and spring semesters), and fully online (both Bio 260 and 312, summer sessions).

Video lectures

I have posted a number of lectures on a lab YouTube channel

Publications

I have also published two peer-reviewed education articles:

• Carter, Ashley. 2002. Favorite Demonstration: Demonstrating an Interactive Genetic Drift Exercise. Journal of College Science Teaching 31(6), 408-409.
• Carter, Ashley. 1999. Using Spreadsheets To Model Population Growth, Competition & Predation in Nature. The American Biology Teacher. 61(4), 294-296.

Links to PDFs of these can be found on the Publications page.

Courses taught previously

California State University: Long Beach

• Advanced Evolutionary Biology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Molecular Evolution
• Biostatistics Lecture
• Biostatistics Lab
• Seminar in Ecology: Gene Duplication
• Experience Success Program I

Florida State University

• Evolution
• Biological Science II

Yale University

• Population Ecology
• Introduction to Statistics: Life Sciences
• Introductory Biology Lab

Tallahassee Community College

• Microbiology Lab

Albertus Magnus College, New Dimensions Program

• Science and the News