The school continues to expand and improve – and so does our TCS family! We are pleased to announce Rebecca Obniski as our new part-time science teacher. Rebecca first worked with TCS through the CSI science program as an graduate at Johns Hopkins University. Since then she has obtained her PhD in Biology from Johns Hopkins. This will be her first teaching position.
Rebecca says the thing she is most excited about in teaching at TCS is transferring her experience working with science in the lab to students who haven’t had that exposure. “I am excited to be that intermediary between them and a new world,” she said. The science subject that is most fascinating to Rebecca is genetics, which was the focus of her PhD. She explained that genetics is interesting because it is like a “secret code” that directs so much about our bodies and provides so much variation in life.
In addition to her love of science, Rebecca really fell in love with teaching when she led labs through CSI. “I love facilitating that “a-ha!” moment when someone figures out something,” she said. Rebecca believes that in teaching, the goal is for your students to internalize the subject and to know it so well that they can teach it to others.
Aside from science and teaching, Rebecca is a musician- she can play both violin and organ. If she could change just one thing to make the world a better place, she would make all peer-reviewed journals free, to grant open access to information to all people.
We give Rebecca our warmest welcome, and look forward to a great school year!
