Jessamy Norton-Ford

Instructor

    Psychology Fundamentals Cognition, Language and Schooling
    • Fall semester, 2009
    • Spring semester, 2010

    • Cognition, Language and Schooling is designed to provide both a theoretical and empirical overview of cognitive and language development from birth through the end of adolescence, as well as second language acquisition and interconnections between cognitive development, language development and schooling.

Graduate Student Writing Tutor

  • Graduate Student Resource Center, 2010 academic year
    • Assisted graduate students with the composition and editing process of grant, fellowship, and article writing. Designed and hosted seminars dealing with the application process of various funding opportunities for graduate students. Planned and conducted graduate student writing workshops.

Teaching Assistant

  • Psych 7A, Intro to Psych (Fall 2007, Spring and Summer 2008)
  • Psych 9A, Psychology Fundamentals (Fall 2009, Spring 2010)
  • Psych 9B, Psychology Fundamentals (Winter 2010)
  • Psych 112, Experimental Psychology (Fall, 2011)
  • Psych 140, Human Memory (Winter 2009)
  • Psych155/Ling 155, Psych of Language (Fall 2008)
    • Delivered 80 minute lecture on fundamental frequency in communication
  • Ling 03, Intro to Linguistics (Winter 2008)
  • Ling 20, Intro to Linguistics (Spring 2006)
  • Ling 52, Syntax I (Winter 2006, Fall 2006)
  • Ling 55, Syntactic Structures (Spring 2007)
  • Ling 80B, Mod English Grammar (Winter 2007)
  • SocSci 10C, Probability and Statistics (Spring 2009)

Mentor

  • Acted as co-mentor for Undergraduate thesis project, "Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes for Decoding Degraded Speech," presented at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Author: Lissa Pratt