 Linda Knight
Teacher
Houston Public Schools
Houston, TX
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 BA, Knox College
(English)
MS, Indiana
University (Earth Science)
Ed.D, Indiana
University (Science Education) |
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High School Teacher |
 
"I spend most of my time with twelve and thirteen year-olds. Which for
some people sounds like a pretty horrible way to go, but it's very
exciting - exciting interaction. They're interested, curious, young people
and they're interests may not - when they walk through the door - may not
just be targeted towards earth science, but they are curious enough that
if given the opportunity, given - to fiddle with sand and water and to
actually explore interesting ideas, they - they enjoy it."
Dr. Knight received a B.A. in English Literature from Knox College (1965)
and then an M.A.T. in Earth Science (1970) and an Ed.D. in Science
Education from Indiana University (1975). She entered college intending to
be an English teacher but found her first geology course (taken to meet
college requirements) to be so interesting that she kept signing up for
more geology courses. Eventually she redirected her goals toward teaching
earth science. Over her twenty-three years of teaching in the public
schools of both Indiana and Texas, Dr. Knight has found that her English,
Earth Science, and Teaching knowledge have blended together to both enrich
her teaching and support a variety of exciting career-related projects.
She has co-authored a widely-used Earth Science textbook, developed a
number of curricular units for her school district, and created
topographic landform models that are commercially available through Wards
Scientific. She has served as president for the Texas Earth Science
Teachers Association and the National Earth Science Teacher Association,
as well as serving as a member of the Education Advisory committees for
AGU and GSA. She created Earth Focus, a student environmental journal.
Distributed nationally, this journal offers middle and high school
students a means of publishing their own research and ideas about earth
and environmental topics. Dr. Knight has received a number of grants and
won several awards, most notably, the Presidential Award for Excellence in
Science Teaching, the GSA's Excellence in Earth Science Teaching Award,
and the Business Week Award for Instructional Innovation. Dr. Knight is
presently serving as co-director of the Rice University/Houston ISD Model
Science Lab, a middle school enhancement program in the Houston
Independent School District, Houston, Texas.
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