At CSU Northridge, I taught methodology courses for the School of Education, especially the social sciences and language arts. It is clear that my education interests are wide and varied. My life partner of over 30 years teaches high school chemistry. I enjoy music, science fiction, genealogy, and gardening. I have taught at other campuses, and our students are the hardest working, most dedicated of any I have encountered.
Teaching here is fun.
I enjoy helping teachers discover ways to integrate the social sciences with all academic and arts domains. I am also interested in helping students grasp the concepts of math in ways that make sense to them in their real world. I would like to help future teachers understand how it is that humans move from basic understandings of number in infancy through proportions in elementary school and to abstract math concepts, such as algebraic structures. It will take some time to tease out what it is that young children know about math concepts and how they make those connections. Presentations and publications are available at my office.