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At the FWMSH, my
major responsibilities are concerned with researching background information,
designing and utilizing materials from our collections in our professional
development program with school districts. I also work individually
with teachers on materials and projects to fill individual needs by
collecting and preparing specimens for their use, and by making loans
of materials, suggesting resources and possible directions or avenues
for fostering a norm of continuous development, improvement, and accomplishment.
I serve as part of a four-person team to, I hope, inspire, enlighten,
and enrich teachers from the different districts and to help motivate
them to teach science along with the other subjects. Working in a team
situation keeps me alive, on my toes, and provides a means and forum
for discussion, evaluation, and continual improvement in information
delivery as well as skill development.
I work on outreach
specifically dealing with science objects and specimens and their use
in informal as well as formal classroom situations by maintaining State
and Federal Permits and by collecting specimens for the Museumıs Synoptic
and Systematic Collections. In addition, I work with teenagers here
at the Museum sponsoring a Science Club as well as working the teens
at Ft. Worthıs Country Day School, helping to explore and interpret
Big Bend National Park geology and biology with 80 eighth-grade students
for a week in the park each year (as I have for the past 22 years).
I also have taught classes (Biology and Herpetology) there for six years
continuously and then periodically as well as accompanying and exploring
the ocean habitat with the AP Biology class on a four-day Oceanography
trip to the Texas coast and then, in addition, a couple of different
trips to the same locations with Waco Montessori School upper elementary
students.
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