Nate Poling, Ph.D.

Senior Educational Consultant

Office: Blocker 233B
Contact: npoling@tamu.edu

Resume CV

As a Senior Educational Consultant at the Center for Teaching Excellence, Nate advances the Center’s efforts in High-Impact Teaching Practices. With over ten years of faculty educational development experience, he specializes in supporting educators as they design, evaluate, and assess student group projects and as they help students navigate the complex challenges of working in collaborative teams. 

Additionally, Nate leads the Center’s efforts in Service-Learning, focusing on how to equitably balance service, learning, civic duty, and community engagement to best achieve and sustain student success and positive community impact. 

Nate earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Educational Technology from the University of Florida and has a wide range of teaching experience in higher education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has taught online and in-person courses in instructional design, project management, and educational technology.
 

Research Focus:

• High-Impact Teaching Practices
• Service-Learning
• Community-Engagement in Teaching and Learning
• Supporting Student Project Groups

Areas of Expertise:

• Faculty Educational Development Programming and Facilitation
• Individual Teaching Consultations
• Teaching Controversial Topics and Managing Challenging Classroom Situations