I have unique content knowledge. I learned my biology in college classrooms, in the woods and on the farm.
I have had to reteach myself a fair amount of biology. I never took biology in high school. Marlboro College, its' passionate professors and students introduced me to Biology. When Jenny Ramstetter let me into her Agroecology class, on the sole agreement, that I might have to "brush up on my photosynthesis" I was hooked. Marlboro professors are teachers first. I was lucky to have supportive and generous teachers at Marlboro. Bob once loaned me $300 to go on a California road trip to see the oldest and largest trees in the world. Jenny and her husband gave me plenty of opportunity to work in the woods on their farm to earn extra money, learn some work ethic, and ask endless questions about biological interactions in the Northeastern Deciduous Forest Ecosystem.
Since leaving Marlboro College, I try to apply biology to the world I interact with everyday. From my experience growing up I knew that biology existed outside. As a student I was influenced by Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Edward Abbey, Hunter S. Thompson, where biology was more experience in nature and less about explanations about nature. The ideas of those philosophers intersected with the beauty of classic biology of Robert MacArthur, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Lynn Margulis, and E.O. Wilson. I saw experience and beauty on the farm, watching animals, trees, seeds, and vegetables grow. I now see the beauty in growing knowledge and curiosity within in students with questions about the natural world that surrounds them.
I have had to reteach myself a fair amount of biology. I never took biology in high school. Marlboro College, its' passionate professors and students introduced me to Biology. When Jenny Ramstetter let me into her Agroecology class, on the sole agreement, that I might have to "brush up on my photosynthesis" I was hooked. Marlboro professors are teachers first. I was lucky to have supportive and generous teachers at Marlboro. Bob once loaned me $300 to go on a California road trip to see the oldest and largest trees in the world. Jenny and her husband gave me plenty of opportunity to work in the woods on their farm to earn extra money, learn some work ethic, and ask endless questions about biological interactions in the Northeastern Deciduous Forest Ecosystem.
Since leaving Marlboro College, I try to apply biology to the world I interact with everyday. From my experience growing up I knew that biology existed outside. As a student I was influenced by Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Edward Abbey, Hunter S. Thompson, where biology was more experience in nature and less about explanations about nature. The ideas of those philosophers intersected with the beauty of classic biology of Robert MacArthur, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Lynn Margulis, and E.O. Wilson. I saw experience and beauty on the farm, watching animals, trees, seeds, and vegetables grow. I now see the beauty in growing knowledge and curiosity within in students with questions about the natural world that surrounds them.
My Mississippi State Educator License.