Education

 

 

1981-1986         The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA

·         Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction.

Dissertation title: A study of the effects of two types of informational communications on the attitudes of high school students toward the use of nuclear energy for electrical production. 

 

1978-1981           Clarion State College                                  Clarion, PA

·         M.Ed., Science Education

 

1971-1975           The Pennsylvania State University           University Park, PA

·         B.S., Secondary Education, Biology

 

Certifications and other preparation

 

 

Management Development Program, Harvard University, June 17-29, 2001

·         Two-week institute for administrators with departmental responsibility. Provides new ideas for critical management issues including effective leadership, human resource policies, administrators as change agents, planning initiatives, multicultural issues, fiscal matters, and growth in the workplace.

Pennsylvania Instructional II Teaching Certification

·         Secondary Biology

·         General Science

Endorsement: Environmental Science

Program Specialist: Nuclear Science

Additional Training/Education

·         Just in Time Teaching Training. Boulder, Colorado.  June 10-12, 2004. 

·         NSF-funded Chautauqua course on using technology to teach students with handicapping conditions.  Rochester, New York. May 22 - 28, 1997.

·         NSTA-sponsored institute on teaching science to students with handicapping conditions. St. Louis, Missouri. March 23 - 27, 1996.

·         NSF-funded Chautauqua course on Teaching Introductory Astronomy. Green Bank, West Virginia. May 23 - 27, 1995.