Hello! Welcome to my teaching portfolio, where you can see all my work and experience as it relates to teaching. As an educator, STEM is my passion, and it is my life goal for every student to experience the joy of experimentation and seeing themselves create something they envisioned. Technology is not just a box to check in the classroom to me, but an essential way to expand student potential and embrace accessibility and equity. As the world becomes increasingly digital, the best educators are those who can embrace technology and skilled, hands-on education that provides practical and transformative experience for students. In the past, I have had experiences teaching all ages from preschool through adulthood and have been volunteer teaching in some form or another since I was in the 5th grade reading books to kindergarteners in my school library. I have always been a lifelong learner and enthusiastic student, and as an educator, my enthusiasm for my subject matter comes out in my teaching style through having high energy, including extra content depth to each lesson, and giving students every opportunity to create and relate material to themselves. Memorization and recall are not what I consider learning. Instead, students should always have a way to apply what they learn, and if that means harder grading for me because it is all projects instead of tests, then that is what it means. Equity is essential in my classroom, and I will go out of my way to give students choice and flexibility so everyone can have the same opportunity for success. For disadvantaged students, my primary method of assistance is 1:1 time, and I purposefully build my classroom around student independence so that the disadvantaged students get the 1:1 time from me that they need to succeed. I highly emphasize flipped learning as part of my technology integration to maximize active learning opportunities in the classroom. What motivates me through every day is the chance to see a student be inspired by material. My favorite subjects to teach are computer science, life science including biology, math, and robotics, but I am passionate about almost everything under the STEM umbrella. As STEM education and educational technology grow as movements, my goal is to be a model educator in both of these areas and transform the landscape of both. Thanks for reading this entire description about me as an educator- check out the rest of the site to learn more about my credentials and specific pieces of work.
Teaching Experience
- Vacation Bible School (2012)
- Martial Arts Teaching Assistant (2010-2013)
- Mathematics and Computer Science Workshop Instructor (2016-2017)
- Girls' Science and Engineering Day (2016, 2017)
- Girl Scout Troop Leader (2017-2018)
- Coding Workshop Panelist (2019)
- TEALS Volunteer Teacher (2020)
- Computer Science, Mathematics, and STEM Tutor (2017, 2021-2024)
- Software Engineering Instructor at Hack Reactor Bootcamp (2022-2023)
- Education Assistant for Cook Museum of Natural Science (2023-Present)
In Progress Education
- Bachelors of Science dual major in Secondary Science Biology Education and Biological Science with a Concentration in Ecology and Evolution from University of Alabama in Huntsviile
- Masters of Education in Educational Technology and Instructional Design
Completed Education
- Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from University of Alabama in Huntsville
- Google Computer Sience Summer Institute
- iSchools Inclusion Institute for Information Sciences
- Hack Reactor 19-week Beginner Coding Bootcamp
Certifications
- Microsoft Accessibility in Action
- Adult, Child, and Infant CPR and First Aid from Red Cross
- edX Certification for R Programming
- edX Certification for Mobile Application Experiences
- Google Digital Citizenship
- Google Drive Applied Digital Skills
- Google Sites Applied Digital Skills