Approach to Teaching

My experience with teaching started in high school when I first started as a Spanish tutor. Following that, I held teaching appointments at several higher education institutions.

In my teaching, I adopt an intersectional and equity-oriented lens to advocate for redesigning curricula to make them more inclusive and accessible.

As an educator and researcher, I strongly believe in and advocate for the transformative power of education. With this as my guiding principle, I consider the classroom a place of growth, where my role is to guide students in exploring new topics, ideas, materials, and languages. In adopting this growth mindset, I aim to show commitment to social justice by incorporating and promoting practices of inclusion in my teaching. I consider students’ diverse backgrounds and intersecting identities when developing my curriculum. This means that I make a conscious effort to look at my own teaching materials in critical ways, to discover potential biases I may hold, educate myself about them, and make necessary changes so that my course can affirm students’ existence rather than further advance exclusionary practices.

Students' Feedback

I can't thank Gabby enough for her kindness and understanding throughout the semester. She understands the importance of taking care of yourself and your mental health, and her teaching style wholly reflects that. She is an incredible professor, and she is a very kind person. I hope that other professors follow her example!

Teaching Philosophy

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As an educator, I strongly believe in and advocate for the transformative power of education. With this as my guiding principle, I consider the classroom a place of growth, where my role is to guide students in exploring new topics, ideas, materials, and languages. In adopting this growth mindset, I aim to show commitment to social justice by incorporating and promoting practices of inclusion in my teaching, and by regarding accessibility as a guiding principle.

Selected Courses Taught as Instructor of Record

Graduate Courses

Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Language Institute

Spanish for Reading Knowledge (online synchronous)

Undergraduate courses

Saint Joseph's University, Department of Languages and Linguistics

Spanish 102 - Spanish for Beginners Level 2
Spanish 201 - Intermediate Spanish Level 1

Middlebury Language School, School of Spanish

Intermediate Spanish: Resources for Communication in Context (in-person)

Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Introduction to the Study of Language (hybrid)
Advanced Spanish Conversation and Contemporary Issues (in-person)
Spanish 132 Intermediate Spanish 2 (online asynchronous)
Spanish 131 Intermediate Spanish 1 (online asynchronous)
Spanish 121 - Review and Continuation (online asynchronous)

Teachers College, Columbia University, Community Language Program

English as a Second Language Intermediate 2 (in-person, co-teacher)

New York University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Intensive Intermediate Spanish (in-person)
Intermediate Spanish - Level 1 (in-person)
Spanish for Beginners - Level 2 (in-person)
Spanish for Beginners - Level 1 (in-person)