Faculty Fellow in Science/Health Sciences

Michelle Chabot is a senior lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy and the course coordinator for University Physics 1. She has been teaching physics for over 20 years and has extensive experience with a large variety of classroom environments and curriculum development. At RIT, she has participated in two NSF-funded grants targeted at improving undergraduate education in STEM fields. She has been awarded the RIT College of Science Faculty Mentor of the Year Award and the RIT Science and Math Education Research Special Honors Award. As a College of Science liaison to the Course Advancement Team (CATs) that formed at the start of Covid, she assisted numerous faculty as they adapted their curriculum and pedagogy to varying modalities. She is passionate about education and about developing a strong sense of community among the faculty. Always striving to improve, you can find her trying something new in her own classroom every semester.

Michelle earned her Bachelor’s degree in math and physics from Rice University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduating, she was awarded a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO. Prior to RIT, Michelle was the Physics Undergraduate Coordinator at the University of South Florida and an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of San Diego.

Key areas of expertise:
active learning, flipped learning, advancing student perseverance/growth mindset, Bloom’s Taxonomy, non-traditional assignments in STEM, workshop/studio classrooms, myCourses optimization, adaptive instruction, large lecture course engagement and control, lab development and assessment, creating engaging content, communicating complex concepts.

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