Teaching

Contents

1 Teaching Graduate Course
2 Teaching Undergraduate Course
3 Guest Lecturing in Graduate Courses
4 Online Teaching Activities
5 Awards Related to Teaching
6 Lead Teaching Assistant
7 Teaching Assistant
8 Teaching Activities Through Other Media
9 Software Workshops (Presenter)
10 Mentorship for New Teaching Assistants
11 My Training Towards Improving Teaching Techniques

Teaching Graduate Course

Teaching courses in the School of Population and Public Health, UBC

SPPH 504: Application of Epidemiological Methods (Section 7: restricted to Ph.D. level students only)

Course lecturer in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University for a graduate course:

"EPIB 591 Regression Analysis for Health Sciences", 2016

Teaching Undergraduate Course

Sessional Instructor in Statistics, UBC for an undergraduate course

"Elementary Statistics for Applications", 2008, Term I (Info)

Guest Lecturing in Graduate Courses

Guest lecturing for the graduate course SPPH 500 Analytical Methods in Epidemiological Research on the topic of “Observational data analysis” in School of Population and Public Health, UBC (Nov. 2016).
Guest lecturing for the graduate course EPIB 610 Advanced Methods: Causal Inference (Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill) [Student Testimonial]
Guest lecturing for the graduate course SPPH 501: Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Epidemiological Studies on the topic of “Causal Inference” in School of Population and Public Health, UBC (Nov. 2011: Slides).

Online Teaching Activities

Instructor; SAS introductory course designed for shikkhok.com (This site is recipient of 2013 Google RISE Award and 2013 ISIF Award). 325 students enrolled in this course. This course is offered in Bengali language, see workshop page for corresponding English SAS materials.

Awards Related to Teaching

Winner of UBC Statistics Department's 2011-12 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (News)
Winner of UBC Science Achievement Award, 2009 partially due to teaching, initiatives within the Department of Statistics, UBC
Nominated for "Killam Graduate TA Teaching Award for teaching" twice:

2008/2009 (slide containing winner/nominee names displayed by Celebrate Learning),
2011/2012.

Lead Teaching Assistant

Head Teaching assistant in UBC during 2008-2011 for the courses

Teaching Assistant

Acting as teaching assistant in UBC during 2007-2013 for

200 level courses such as

300 level Introduction to Probability.

Teaching Activities Through Other Media

Administering a blog on “Biostatistics and Epidemiology with R”
Freelance guest writer for academic blogs such as stattler
Maintaining a Youtube channel to promote various statistical packages through tutorials and tips targeting audiences coming from non-statistical background (chosen for the youtube partner program). See Web Tutorials for further details.

Software Workshops (Presenter)

SAS

Presented in "Introductory SAS Statistical Software Workshop" in January, 2013 for endMS Western Pacific Research & Training. Materials can be viewed from here and data files and codes can be downloaded from here.

Presented in "Network Meta-analysis Basics with R examples" in May 2017 for Stats group meeting, St. Paul's Hospital.
Presented in "Introductory R Statistical Software Workshop" in Oct, 2012 for endMS Western Pacific Research & Training. Materials can be obtained from here.
Organized and presented on workshop on R (a statistical package) in September 2008 in Department of Statistics, UBC for the graduate students of this department. Slides can be obtained from here.

Julia

Presented in “Statistical capabilities of Julia - An 'almost nontechnical' overview for statisticians”, Graduate Students Seminar, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia in November, 2013. Related slides can be found here.

Stata

Presented in Graduate Students Seminar Series, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, March, 2013 about "Getting started with Stata". Materials can be viewed from here and data files can be obtained from here.
Organized and presented in workshop on STATA (a statistical package) in 2012 for UBC PiMS Research Group, UBC. Materials can be obtained from here.
Organized and presented in workshop on STATA (a statistical package) in 2006-2007 in Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Slides can be obtained from here.

BUGS

Presented in Graduate Students Seminar Series, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Nov, 2012 about "How to pet BUGS". Materials can be viewed from here and relevant R codes can be obtained from here.

Mentorship for New Teaching Assistants

The TA training is stipulated as a part of the teaching assistant assignment for the Department of Statistics, UBC. Following are my contributions to this program:

'TA Training' Trainer / Mentor

Lead TA-trainer in the “Teaching assistant training program” (Whole day workshop), 2012-2013
Co-TA-trainer in the “Teaching assistant training program” (Whole day workshop), 2011-2012
Assisted in organizing the “Living Lab workshop” as an extended part of the Teaching assistant training program, 2011-2012
Assisted in organizing the “Cultural diversity workshop” as a part of the Teaching assistant training program, 2012-2013

Evaluating TAs and the training program

Designing and implementing the mid-term TA evaluation questionnaire for the Department of Statistics, UBC, 2012-2013
Summarizing the mid-term TA evaluation responses for the Department of Statistics TAs and providing feedback to respective TAs, UBC, term 1, 2011
Organizing TA feedback session for the Department of Statistics, UBC, term 2, 2012-13
Discussing student evaluations individually with each TA for the Department of Statistics, UBC, term 2, 2013

Course-specific mentoring of TAs

Organizing "STAT 241/251 head TA orientation" for the Department of Statistics, UBC, term 2, 2012
Organizing "STAT 203 TA orientation" for the Department of Statistics, UBC, term 1, 2013

Preparing TA training materials

Presentation and making of TA training poster for the display session of the celebration of learning week at UBC, 2011.
Volunteer for administering the TA training web-page for the Statistics department, UBC
Contributed in updating the 'TA training proposal' for the Department of Statistics, UBC, 2012-13
Volunteer actor for the Teaching assistant training video (not open in public domain) to demonstrate real life situations occurring in a computing laboratory and how to deal with them, 2009, UBC

My Training Towards Improving Teaching Techniques

Participation in Training Workshops

Three day Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) for graduate students, CTLT , Early-February 2012
Whole day Mentor Development Workshop for graduate students, CTLT , August 2011
Whole day workshop on 'Knowledge Translation', organized by Western-Pacific endMS network, March, 2012.
Effective Presentation and Media Skills for graduate students, CTLT, August 2011
Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom for graduate students, CTLT, August 2011
Creating and Utilizing Learning Objectives for graduate students, CTLT, September 2011
Lesson Planning for TAs for graduate students, CTLT, September 2011
i>Clicker Hands-On Training, Learning Technology Institute, UBC, August 2008
TA Training program for graduate students - Department of Statistics, UBC, August 2007
Cultural diversity workshop for graduate students - Department of Statistics, UBC, January 2013

Participation in Courses that taught Teaching /consulting / presentation Techniques

Took Technical Communication Skills I (3 credits course) that aims to teach principles and practice of oral presentations
Took Statistical Consulting courses (STAT 550, STAT 551) that aims at teaching how to communicate with clients from various background and offer them professional consultation/help.