Online Teaching as a Student, Parent, and Instructor

I began teaching in 1991 as a high school Chemistry teacher in Athens, TX, the “brick and mortar” style, as they say. After two years, I realized I wanted to know more about chemistry, so I applied to the graduate Chemistry program at The Pennsylvania State University. I taught there as a lab instructor and then as a research assistant while working on my Ph.D. in chemistry in the Thomas E. Mallouk laboratory. Then I was off to DuPont as a Senior Research Chemist.

However, in 2003 I started to wonder about bigger questions and began my journey into the Catholic Church. I decided to stay home and raise children, being open to life, and along the way I gained experience as a home school mom, teaching my own kids and online classes for Kolbe Academy from 2014 – 2018. In 2014, after completing my M.A. degree in dogmatic theology completely online (even graduation), I began teaching online courses for Holy Apostles College & Seminary and Seton Hall University, where my hero, Fr. Stanley L. Jaki had been a Distinguished Professor.

So, I have experience teaching all levels, and I have been advocating for online courses for nearly a decade as a student, parent, and instructor. These are the courses I currently teach online at Seton Hall University and Holy Apostles College & Seminary, and I’m proud to say I still do it all from home.