What is now proved was once only imagined.
I've been teaching and learning everyday of my life. As a young adolescent I wanted to be a high school English teacher. But music exercised a strong pull on me and I spent my early adulthood playing music professionally throughout the Northeast. Eventually, my career as a technologist, project manager and training and development expert just took off!
During my final years in the corporate world, I formally moved into an educator framework when I became the Training Manager for John Hancock in their world headquarters in Boston. That led me to obtain my M. Ed. in Education, an experience that put me in close contact with dozens of K-12 practitioners who were in many of my courses. The Cambridge College School of Education reconnected me with my desire to teach.
Working as a corporate educator, I discovered how to utilize technology in learning and also became proficient in using accelerated learning design principles. The International Alliance for Learning was then and remains today a great resource for learning professionals. The more I worked with K-12 educators, and secondary educators in particular, the more excited I became about creating new models of learning. But the most interesting challenge is perhaps the need to reskill the teaching workforce: the elementraty students I work with now will have much more facility with digital tools as a life component, and middle and high school classes need to anticipate the requirement that interactivity is here to stay.
In a nutshell, real change is needed to make education relevant and accessible to our adolescents in these early heady days of the 21st century. Lots of paradigms have to shift and there is plenty of challenges for all constituents. More information on my teaching and philosophy will be available on this page in the future.
I have been teaching at Cambridge College since 1998. Here are some examples of courses I've designed and taught:
I have also designed courses on brain-based learning and creativity, and some leadership and consulting courses - some delivered in the School of Management! If you would like to see my complete list of the courses I have taught at Cambridge, you'll find them here.
Broadening my career into K - 12 classrooms has led me to my work at the Village School. We're linking technology into the content areas and generally viewing the resulting amalgam as the genesis of new ways to teach and learn. Our classrooms are becoming multidisciplinary in practice and teachers and learners both are growing in leaps and bounds.
Here's what I'm reading - enjoy
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