Hello! It's me, Johan!
🧑🏽💻 Website updated October 13, 2024.
Contact Email: jcristobal2[at]unl[dot]edu Emailing me is the best way to contact me.
This home page is meant as the at-a-glance reel of who I am! You can click one of the links in the QUICK MENU to go more in depth!
My curriculum vitae is right here.
Hello, my name is Johan Cristobal, a fifth-year graduate student and Doctoral Candidate in the Mathematics Department at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)! 🎉🎉🎉
I bring an interdisciplinary approach to my research, teaching, and mentorship. I aim to understand more about instructors' and students' frames of teaching and learning of mathematics in post-secondary contexts. I bring my interest in partial differential equations to the world of education research by asking "why is that?" a lot. Most formative and informative to my research and mentoring are the critical education theories and culturally relevant/sustaining pedagogies.
I am advised by Dr. Yvonne Lai, her website.
For my teaching, I currently teach two courses: College Algebra & Trigonometry and a pedagogy seminar for the Mathematics Learning Assistants. Previously, I've taught as instructor of record for Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, and a content course for Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers at the Middle School level.
On top of teaching, I've also aided in course development. I worked tremendously hard on the College Algebra Co-requisite Course, in which I reordered the sections for a better scaffolding and I made videos to be embedded in the online free textbook. You can see an example of this in the PORTOFOLIO tab, or check out the Open Educational Resource for UNL's Intermediate Algebra Course. I also had the great privilege of co-developing the pedagogy seminar for Mathematics Learning Assistants. I am also the first to teach this course, and I'm making edits to the pre-made designs to better address students' growth as Learning Assistants.
The photo in the background was taken January 28, 2023 at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.