Experience Summary
A multi-lingual professional educator and research scientist with 20+ years of experience, I majored in engineering/energy physics and materials science with minors in mathematics and engineering. Fluent in French, I am very strong in computational mathematics, optimization and linear programming. I have 15 years research experience in the design and properties of engineering materials. I have transferable computer, management, grant-writing skills. I designed and executed activity-based learning of mathematics and physics for pre-college middle and high school students from 2000 – 2002 as Co-Principal/Principal Investigator and Activity Coordinator. I was Co-Project Director of Prince George’s Community College Bridge Academy 2009-2010.
Teaching Style
As a coach, I pay close attention to pedagogy as well as to the needs and learning styles of my students. With a very interdisciplinary background education in materials science and engineering physics, I bring rich applications to the classroom and thereby place the teaching of mathematics and physics into context for my students. I integrate technology into students’ learning experiences - using PowerPoint presentations and/or handouts from my lecture notes and outlines, requiring students to fill in some intentional blanks during class or their private study thereby keeping them engaged on the content. I ask appropriate leading and probing questions to explore the student’s lower and higher order thinking skills – cf. Bloom’s taxonomy.