Communication

I share knowl­edge, insights, and expe­ri­ence with oth­ers through my writ­ing and pre­sen­ta­tions. My goals are to develop the abil­i­ties and under­stand­ing of stu­dents, teach­ers, and par­ents, and to advance the field of education.

A col­league and I wrote a unit based on the All About Explor­ers web­site. It was pub­lished in Toni Buzzeo’s book, Col­lab­o­rat­ing to Meet Stan­dards: Teacher/​Librarian Part­ner­ships K-​​6 (2nd ed.). We have also pre­sented sev­eral times in our dis­trict about the site, the unit, and how it is being used.

In my pro­fes­sional blog, I share insights, teach­ing ideas, and encour­age dis­cus­sion about var­i­ous edu­ca­tion top­ics. I also use a blog in my role as a dis­trict admin­is­tra­tor to com­mu­ni­cate with par­ents and the com­mu­nity.

I pre­vi­ously incor­po­rated a wiki and blog into my teach­ing as a way of teach­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills in a moti­vat­ing and engag­ing way.

I am also in the process of build­ing a pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment wiki for sup­port­ing class­room teach­ers in dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing instruc­tion in their class­rooms and to encour­age them to share their expertise.

I have writ­ten com­pre­hen­sive, dif­fer­en­ti­ated, and highly moti­vat­ing units in all sub­ject areas. Exam­ples of the units I have created:

  • The Qin Dynasty of Ancient China
  • Alien Zool­ogy (study of clas­si­fi­ca­tion of animals)
  • Archi­tec­ture and Com­mu­nity Planning
  • Rag­ing Planet (severe weather and nat­ural disasters)

As the lead sci­ence teacher, I wrote and/​or edited planned course out­lines for all courses in the district’s K-​​12 sci­ence curriculum

Other tech­ni­cal skills include:

  • Famil­iar­ity with both the Dru­pal con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem and Word­Press blog­ging platform
  • Con­ver­sant in HTML and CSS coding

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