Erin Galyen

Erin is a Professor of Practice with the University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology and the Co-Coordinator of the Certificate in College Teaching program. Her responsibilities include teaching and administrative support in the program. She teaches the courses IA 697a: Learner-Centered Teaching, IA 497/597: Mindful Teaching and Learning, and IA 697p: College Teaching Practice. Erin also provides general teaching support services, such as instructional workshops and mini-courses, observations, focus groups, and individual consulting to instructors. 

Erin has worked with kindergarteners through adults in a variety of formal and informal education settings for almost 25 years and in a variety of roles. Her experience includes elementary through graduate-level curriculum development and instruction, faculty professional development, community outreach, program evaluation, and educational consulting. Erin's professional and academic interests include evidence-based teaching, future faculty preparation, inclusive active and collaborative learning, quantitative reasoning, contemplative pedagogies, and qualitative research methodologies.

She holds a B.A. in Physics, an M.S. in Astronomy, an M.A. in English with a specialty in Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching of English, a Ph.D. in Teaching and Teacher Education, and a graduate certificate in Instructional Design and Technology. She is also a graduate of the Certificate in College Teaching program.