My Background
An Arizona native! I graduated from Northwestern Lutheran Academy in Mobridge, South Dakota in 1979. NWLA was a prep. school of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran synod. It had three tracts of education: General ed., Teacher ed., and Prep. for synodical training for pastors at Northwestern Lutheran Seminary. After high school, I went to Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm Minnesota. It has been renamed and is known as Martin Luther College. MLC is our synod's teacher's college. My minor was science. I entered public education after graduation and began teaching at Bellair Elementary where I taught for nine years before moving to Las Brisas for two years. Then, on to Copper Creek and Finally at Highland Lakes where I enjoy teaching science. I attended NAU and received my Master of Arts in Science Education degree in August of 2007.
Fishing ,camping and hiking are my favorite hobbies. I like to read mostly about fishing and science news. I also collect minerals and rocks and view the planets through my telescope. I share these interests with my three children and my wife.
The quote below sums up my educational philosophy.
“Different students will achieve understanding in different ways, and different students will achieve different degrees of depth and breadth of understanding depending on interest, ability and context. But all students can develop the knowledge and skills described in the Standards, even as some students go well beyond these levels.”
National Research Council. (1996). The national science education standards. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Fishing ,camping and hiking are my favorite hobbies. I like to read mostly about fishing and science news. I also collect minerals and rocks and view the planets through my telescope. I share these interests with my three children and my wife.
The quote below sums up my educational philosophy.
“Different students will achieve understanding in different ways, and different students will achieve different degrees of depth and breadth of understanding depending on interest, ability and context. But all students can develop the knowledge and skills described in the Standards, even as some students go well beyond these levels.”
National Research Council. (1996). The national science education standards. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
