About Me
I graduated from the Trent-Queens Concurrent Education program in the spring of 2000, and have been teaching math since then, first in my native Ontario, and then in Colombia in an English-language school. I enjoy teaching math, particularly to those students who do not find it an easy topic. Outside of the classroom, I am interested in Volleyball and supervising Student Leadership roles. Professionally, I am interested in the integration of technology, curriculum enrichment through optional student work, and students' transition years in seventh and ninth grades.
Resume
Here is an electronic copy of my resume as a PDF document.
Professional Portfolio
Available here are several samples of assignments and work that I have used in my classroom, along with several pages from my physical professional portfolio. All of these documents are in PDF format.
MCB 4U
- Heart Rate Task
- This is an in-class assignment that I used with the TI-83 Graphing Calculator to get students to examine some of the fundamental ideas of functions.
- Derivatives Assignment
- This assignment is a task given to review some of the basic concepts of functions and derivatives, as well as to explore the connections between related polynomial and rational functions.
- Leibniz's Dragon
- This is a culminating activity that I used for two consecutive years. It allowed students to get creative as they applied the concepts from the calculus in the course.
- Photos of the Design Fair
- These two pages from my physical portfolio are photos from the design fair at the end of the Leibniz's Dragon assignment.
MCR 3U
- Sequences and Fractals
- This task allows students to explore sums of infinite series through the investigation of the Sierpinski Gasket and the Kock Snowflake fractals.
- Trigonometry ISU
- This is a copy of an investigative independent study unit that allowed students to explore problem-solving using trigonometry.
- Sample MCR 3U Exam
- This is a sample of an exam that I gave in an MCR 3U course at Erin DHS.
Other Documents
- Personal Statement, page 1 ~ Personal Statement, page 2
- This is a personal statement including including a description of my teaching philosophy.
- Goals and Reflections
- This is a page I have used with students for them to set and reach goals in any of my math classes.
- What Do I Strive For?
- This is a list of the five teachers who influenced me as a student, and what elements of them I strive to emulate.
- Concurrent Education Letter
- This is a letter from the Faculty of Education at Queens University describing the differences between Concurrent Education and a standard Consecutive program.
- Letter of Reference from Cindy Clark
- This is a letter of reference from the College Counsellor at the Colegio Bolívar describing some of the leadership roles I have taken on while working at the school.
Other Professional Projects
Maintained elsewhere on this webspace is my archive of forum and conference presentations and resource materials.
Last updated: April 9, 2008