Resume
Education
Alma College
- Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics (Sec. Ed.), Minor in Political Science
- Mathematics Honorary
Michigan State University
- Master of Arts in Educational Technology
- Emphasis in Creative Teaching
Experience
Mt. Pleasant High School – Mt. Pleasant, MI
High School Math teacher – All subjects
Writing Integration
- Integrated reflective blogging to increase metacognition in AP calculus
- Developed topic centered blogging in precalculus
Discourse Integration
- Developed activities specifically designed for collaborative whiteboarding
- Utilized WSQ (Watch, Summarize, Question) chats as follow ups to video lessons
Flipped classroom
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Designed real-world problems that spanned each major unit of study
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Created inquiry activities to deepen understanding of certain topics
- Leveraged technology to enhance the instruction
Creative Teaching
- Leveraged Metacognition in Mathematics with “Feeling Trig Functions” and “Walking out Functions” activities
- Collaboratively developed a card sort task to introduce trig verification
- Used GIFs to help students think abstractly about secant and tangent lines
- And more…
Accomplishments/Presentations
- Presented at the AP national conference on Discourse and Inquiry in AP Calculus
- Presented at the National Flipped Learning Conference (July 2015) *Same topics as MACUL
- Presented at Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) Conference on Inquiry in the Flipped Classroom as well as Discourse in Mathematics (March 2015)
- Co-Keynote speaker at Michigan Flipped Learning Conference (January 2014)
- Presented at the Michigan Council of Teachers of English Conference on writing in the mathematics classroom (October 2013)
- Featured Speaker at the National Flipped Learning Conference (June 2013)
- Presented to Alma College Education Department about flipped learning and educational technology (February 2013)
Reflections on Holes in Graphs and Reasoning 