Teaching
Since staring graduate school in 2005, I have regularly sought out opportunities to
work as teaching assistant, grader, or coordinator for economics courses at Cornell.
Having attending a small liberal arts college as an undergraduate, I recognize the incredible
impact that devoted faculty members can have on their students. I am profoundly grateful to
the professors I had as an undergraduate and I strive to have as positive of an impact on
students that I teach as my mentors had on me. After my first year as a Teaching Assistant,
my devotion to teaching was rewarded by the Cornell Economics Department with the
Lewis Walinsky Award for outstanding teaching.
Over the past several years I have worked as a teaching assistant or grader for courses including Principles of
Microeconomics, Economics of Consumer Policy, Economics of Social Security, International Trade,
and Labor Economics. In these positions I was responsible for teaching sections of students,
coordinating class projects, grading exams, and holding review sessions. I also worked as the coordinating TA for
Principles of Microeconomics, which included coordinating
many of the logistics of the course and serving as a guest lecturer on days when the professor was unavailable.
Additionally, I have been extensively invloved in course preparations for multiple semesters of cornell's
400 student Principles of Microeconomics class including significant efforts to integrate the technology into the classroom. This included
updating lecture slides to allow for student interactions using iClicker response devices during class,
using Microsoft Live Meeting to provide online office hours to allow for additional interactions between the students
and the course teaching assistants, and preparing a course website using Aplia which included both online
problem sets and an online economics experiment to allows students to observe how the actions of buyers
and sellers lead to an equilibrium price in a competitive market.
In addition to my more formal roles in course instruction and preparation, I also have worked periodically as an economics tutor
for undergraduates at Cornell, providing one-on-one instructions to students in
Intermediate Microeconomics and Principles of Microeconomics who are struggling with material in their courses.
Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in more information on my teaching philosophy or experience,
or if you would like further information about teaching evaluations from the coures I have taught.
Contact Information
Jeff Larrimore
Joint Committee on Taxation
593 Ford House Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20515
E-mail: jhl42@cornell.edu