Academic Qualifications:

Doctor of Philosophy (Queen’s University, 2009)

• SSHRC-Funded Research Program that explored the role experiences in a preservice teacher education program play in learning to teach.
• Major Field: Curriculum Studies; Minor Field: Cognitive Studies

Master of Education (Queen’s University, 2006)

• Thesis focused on the ways in which three pedagogies could support active-learning in a college physics classroom.

• Major Field: Curriculum Studies; Minor Field: Cognitive Studies

Bachelor of Education (Queen’s University, 2000)

• Honours Specialist, Physics (completed August 2003)
• Intermediate/Senior Divisions, Physics and Mathematics
• Senior Division Chemistry (completed August 2009)
• Primary Division (completed January 2010)

Bachelor of Science, Co-operative Program (University of Waterloo, 2000)

• Physics major with courses in astrophysics, quantum physics, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, classical mechanics, applied mathematics, psychology, and music
• Waterloo-Queen’s Science Teaching Option