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"MJ's dedication to pursuing the necessary understanding, interpreting content in useful ways, and developing research-based instructional methods to teach it was immediately evident." Jeff Owen, Student Teacher Mentor, Letter, 2011
Online Instruction
Online Instruction
Sample Physics course:
Sample Physics course:
Course on GoogleClassroom - Code: re53mdd
Calendar: access through Classroom
2017, Earth's Interior project student example
Physics
Physics
Final Exams:
Final Exams:
Final Exam with extreme accommodations: for autistic student with limited speaking and writing abilities
Friction Lab:
Friction Lab:
Student work:
Student work:
Meteorology
Meteorology
Image credit: Biology Libre
Mountains & Rivers
Mountains & Rivers
Math
Math
2011, College Algebra Teaching Assistant, University of Maine
2011, College Algebra Teaching Assistant, University of Maine
Devoted 5+ additional hours per week transforming lectures into Inquiry-based lessons, improving student performance and enjoyment of the course, reflected in evaluations
2013, Middle School Math, Summit Academy
2013, Middle School Math, Summit Academy
Selected as an example teacher for maintaining detailed curriculum maps and syllabi
Received 10+ teaching evaluations that exceeded expectations
Retained resilience in high-stress work environment, completing monumental tasks in short time frames
Praised as utilizing progressive and research-based Standards-based Grading system
Excelled at online education, culminating materials, assisting colleagues, and teaching student access
2015, Advanced Mathematics, St. Vincent de Paul School
2015, Advanced Mathematics, St. Vincent de Paul School
Finished curriculum early and completed three research projects
Was offered fulltime position after long-term substitute assignment
Image credit: City Journal
STEM Career Day
STEM Career Day
STEM Career Day, Pi Day: March 14, 2016
STEM Career Day, Pi Day: March 14, 2016
A collection of activities, speakers, and lunch, encouraging students to consider STEM careers
Image credit: Kumon
Intensives: Co-Teaching
Intensives: Co-Teaching
2016-2018, Venture Academy
2016-2018, Venture Academy
Venture Academy breaks from their normal curriculum for two weeks for a program called Intensives, in which teachers collaborate in pairs or triples to cover highly specialized topics.
Get Real: Physics, Art, and History of Perception Versus Reality
Get Real: Physics, Art, and History of Perception Versus Reality
Examining the physics of illusions and how amazing things work, such as planes flying!
Image caption: Houston Space Center
Thrillseekers: Physics, History and Psychology of Adventure
Thrillseekers: Physics, History and Psychology of Adventure
As soft skills, students explored concepts such as desensitization and tolerance, and why some students were fans of horror, for example.
Image credit: CU PhET models
Can You Hear Me Now?
Can You Hear Me Now?
The history and physics of communication and transportation advancements and how they specifically affected war in the US, such as horses, radio, telephone, computers, airplanes, and helicopters
Developed card game teaching students about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning
Reducing fears of AI
Exploring examples of teaching tools with tangible games
Keeping Up With the Joneses: How to Adult
Keeping Up With the Joneses: How to Adult
Physics and Economics of life skills such as changing a tire, sewing a button, and maintaining a bicycle
Integrated Learning Programs
Integrated Learning Programs
K-12 Reading Program
K-12 Reading Program
Seniors visited the Kindergarten students at a K-12 school for 30 minutes of reading per week
Physics Lesson Transfer
Physics Lesson Transfer
Juniors created a lesson for 3rd graders on Force
Summer Programs
Summer Programs
UVU Prep, Utah Valley University: Physics
UVU Prep, Utah Valley University: Physics
Developed original content based on Physics 1010 concurrent enrollment, AP labs, and Experiential Learning models
Supported multi-lingual and ESL students
Upward Bound - Math Science, University of Maine: Technical Writing
Upward Bound - Math Science, University of Maine: Technical Writing
Developed original content based on Project-based learning models
Supported multi-lingual and ESL students
"I didn’t know I could write! Thank you for your help and support!"
2009, TRiO Upward Bound Math-Science, University of Maine
Thesis
Thesis
Inferences about some 9th grade students:
Inferences about some 9th grade students:
Lack an understanding of the concept of variability
Understand how to discuss graphs but have a difficult time creating them
Have a misconception that creativity it not a part of doing science
Primary Resources:
Primary Resources:
(1) Views of Nature of Science (VNOS, Lederman 2002): a “scientifically literate individual” should be able to understand the following features of the nature of science:
Science is “a human endeavour, directed by theory and culture”
Science is “reliant on empirical observation”
Science is “subject to change”
The above aspects of science “should be viewed as interdependent”
(2) Middle school students’ use of appropriate and inappropriate evidence in writing scientific explanations (McNeill & Krajcik 2007)
STEM Research and Programs
STEM Research and Programs
Programs: See STEM-ERL, STEM Programming
Research: See STEM Research
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