About Me...Thank you for visiting my website and finding out about my passion for teaching science!
I am a teacher, and a biologist. I am passionate about learning and teaching, and about the world around us and how it works. Initially I became a research scientist and worked 4 years in the University Hospital Bonn, Germany, where I earned a PhD degree in Microbiology. Then I joined the Bayer Pharmaceutical Research Center in Wuppertal, Germany, working 5 years in pharmaceutical research. It is exciting to be a scientist! My life path took me to the USA, where I soon found myself as teacher, teaching my native German language at the House of Germany in San Diego, and implementing an art program at our Title I elementary school. Here I finally aligned my passion for teaching and my knowledge in natural sciences, and became a licensed science teacher in California. We moved to beautiful Oregon, and after many long term substitute stints in Biology, Marine Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, I found my teacher home at Insight Schools of Oregon Painted Hills, an online charter school, where I teach Biology, Physical Science, and Earth Science. Online school offers a lot of flexibility not only to students, but also to me as teacher, being home in our beautiful forest home and surrounded by our many animals. |
"If there is a better way, you can be sure it is nature's way." Aritstotle |