As I said before, my teaching focus is in the geosciences. For those who are unfamiliar with geoscience, it is the study of earth and its physical properties and processes. If you remember learning about the tectonic plates, or making a model volcano in grade school, then you remember a little bit about the geosciences. I want to teach so I can inspire my students to apply their scientific learning to their every day life. When I was growing up, I loved the Bill Nye the Science Guy television show, and that translated into my interest in science classes in middle school. Then in high school, disaster struck. I had not one, but TWO absolutely terrible science teachers. They were boring, uninspired, and seemed to hate their jobs, which made their students start to associate their bad attitude with science. I want to teach high school science because I never want that to happen to someone else. I want my enthusiasm for the topic to be contagious.
I grew up in Western Oregon (McMinnville, to be unnecessarily specific) where I worked in record stores and furniture stores until I went to college in 2005. I attended one year at University of Idaho in Moscow, but I didn’t last there for reasons that really only have to do with my lack of motivation. I worked some crappy jobs up there at a camera store and a grocery store until I moved, with my husband, to Boise. For a year and a half, I worked another low-paying, uninspiring job, and decided that was enough. I started back up here at BSU, where I re-discovered my love of science and education. Now I’m here: working my way to who and what I want to be.
