Pedagogical Experience
Instructional Consultant, Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning, IUB (2025-Present)
Associate Instructor, Dept. of Geography, IUB (2019-2025)
- See Course Taught section below.
Digital Methods & Pedagogy Specialist, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, IUB (2023-2024)
- Assisted humanities scholars in various disciplines integrate digital mapping and network analysis into their research and pedagogy.
- Offered pedagogical support to instructors in humanities disciplines (e.g., Ancient Languages, Spanish & Portuguese, and Anthropology) and developed (a)synchronous workshops, as well as provided classroom support in relation to digital mapping technologies.
- Led IU Bloomington’s HASTAC Fellows program where I trained junior scholars on the use of network analysis and mapping on their research.
Courses Taught
* = Course designed by Drew Heiderscheidt
Spring 2025
GEOG-G 397: Social & Historical Geographic Information Systems*
Fall 2024
GEOG-G 208: Environment & Society*
Spring 2023
GEOG-G 397: Social & Historical Geographic Information Systems*
Fall 2022
GEOG-G 237: Mapping Our World
Summer 2022
GEOG-G 237: Mapping Our World
- Online Synchronous
- 9 students
Courses Assisted
2020-2022
GEOG-G 237: Mapping Our World
2019-2020
GEOG-G 208: Environment & Society
Writing About Teaching
Teaching Workshops Facilitated
Teaching Awards & Fellowships
Graduate Student Fellow, Kovener Teaching Fellows Program, IUB
- Selected to take part in a fellowship composed of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members who are committed to practicing diversity in the classroom.
- Became acquainted with critical pedagogy methods and strategies sourced in the work of Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and other practitioners of active and critical teaching.
Framework: Foundation 6.