All professors are required to provide three areas of performance in their job. These areas help make us better professionals, help us teach others, and learn from those around us. My duties include teaching, engaging in research, and providing service to the department and community.

The courses that I teach include Science Methods, Student Teaching Synthesis, and several graduate courses. Recently designed courses have focused on using technology in the K-12 classrooms. Examples of these technologies include PDA units, GPS units, scientific sensors, software programs, and the Internet.

I find numerous ways to help out around the Department by serving on several committees and am also the supervisor for the Elementary Education Living Learning Community, a select group of incoming freshman that complete courses and live together as a cohort group during their first year of college. Recently, I worked with area teachers to build lab manuals for Biology I and Advanced Biology.

My research focuses on student attitudes toward school and about science, how students perceive technology, concerns and anxieties of pre-service and classroom teachers, and what influences people's environmental attitudes. Teaching integrated science in a departmentalized elementary school, Biology I, Biology II, Marine Science, and Advanced Placement (AP) Biology, leading academic teams (Science Olympiad and Environbowl) to state titles and national places, coaching football, wrestling, and softball gave me a rich experience before my arrival to the University of Southern Indiana. If you have any questions about our program and how it or I can help you, please call.