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I taught Reading and Math to students working toward their High School Equivalency Diplomas.

I worked with students in the TRIO/SSS program at the local community college, mentoring and tutoring them in math and biology.

I taught Math courses to adult learners who are preparing to take the High School Equivalency test. Some of my students attend classes in person, some attend over Zoom, and some are doing the work independently through our course in our LMS, Canvas.

The Iowa Department of Education pushed a Digital Initiative to move Adult Education and Literacy (AEL) programs to an online platform, Instructure Canvas. Due to my proficiency with Canvas and with online teaching, I was hired as a mentor-trainer to help the Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructors transition to online teaching, using courses in Canvas that had been developed by Atomic Jolt. In this role, I remotely assisted Atomic Jolt at a conference session to facilitate a certification course. I worked closely with the High School Equivalency Diploma (HSED) instructors at WITCC to modify the Canvas courses, to better suit the needs of our program and students. I became very familiar with the math courses in particular. I worked with these instructors in person and remotely.

I have been teaching Introductory Biology (for non-majors) at a community college since 2017. The course has a strong focus on chemistry and cell biology since it has been the pre-requisite for A&P courses for health science students. Even with that focus, I still get to teach about ecology, evolution, genetics, and diversity of life.Our Learning Management System (LMS) at WIT is Instructure Canvas, and I used it since I started at WIT. I have attended many professional development trainings to hone my skills in Canvas and have become proficient in using it to teach. In 2020, I created the master course in Canvas for Introductory Biology. The master course has since been used by several instructors to teach online, hybrid, and face-to-face. During development of the course, I made extensive use of the digital resources that our textbook provides, through Cengage Unlimited. I became proficient at using and editing the textbook’s MindTap, which is Cengage’s digital platform. I have attended many Canvas and Cengage trainings and I have mentored other instructors in the use of Canvas and Cengage in their courses.During my time teaching this biology course, I have created a multitude of original resources, for students and for other instructors to use in teaching face-to-face and online. I created worksheets and instructional materials in Microsoft Word, as well as several activities where the students use Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint templates. I have shared these worksheets and activities with other instructors teaching the course. I also created and edited instructional videos in Screencast-o-matic and in Canvas Studio. Since the pandemic, I have mastered using Zoom in classes. I also taught myself how to make interactive activities in PowerPoint so that remote classes are more engaging. I continue to use interactive slides in PowerPoint as I teach face-to-face and over Zoom.

I lead our church in our social justice efforts.

I taught biology classes at Morningside University, as an adjunct professor. For two semesters I taught the Introductory Biology course that is part of the majors sequence, focusing on Ecology, evolution, behavior, and diversity of Life. For several semesters I taught the lab sections of Human Anatomy.

I studied the relationship between individual variation in retinal physiology and behavior (foraging and anti-predator) in house sparrows.

I studied individual variation in foraging behavior of house sparrows.

I studied the effects that aggressive or tolerant relationships among males had on female reproductive success and mate preferences.