Director of Educational Development
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Psychology
659 Z. Reynolds Smith Library
verbekkj@wfu.edu | 336-758-2308
Kristi has been with the Center for the Advancement of Teaching since 2012. Prior to Wake Forest, she was at Wayne State University’s Office for Teaching and Learning for over 10 years, serving as the Acting Director for 5 years. At both of these places, her role has always been first and foremost to support teachers in a variety of ways to be the best they can possibly be and better help their students learn.
She teaches courses in both Psychology and Education, at the graduate and undergraduate level, face-to-face and fully online. She enjoys exploring all aspects of teaching and learning, but especially helping faculty integrate more active/engaging strategies, technology, and metacognition into their courses. She also regularly presents at conferences geared toward teaching and learning issues and has spoken at other universities on teaching-related topics. She is currently serving in a leadership role on the Professional Development Committee of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education.
CAT Responsibilities: Her primary responsibilities include individualized faculty support such as consultations, student feedback collection, and observations as well as CAT programming including, reading discussions, learning communities, and course design institutes.