As a graduate student at the University of Chicago my funding came, almost exclusively, from Teaching Assistantships. As such, I was able to experience and learn from a variety of teaching techniques and also to been active in leading discussions, designing, writing and running labs, as well as giving lectures. I have compiled a selection of successful labs and a large collection of specimens that I would bring with me and that would be used to facilitate teaching; these include exercises on field mapping, geophysics, stratigraphy, petrology (sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic), taphonomy, the foliar physiognomic method, palaeoecology and dinosaur biomechanics, that have been extremely successful at Chicago.
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