About me
Dr. Matt Adams earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education from Michigan State University, with a special focus on Science Education. Prior to that, Dr. Adams was an 8th grade science teacher in Denver, Colorado after having received a B.S. in Earth Science, with a concentration in Secondary Education. As an 8th grade science teacher, Dr. Adams focused on developing meaningful curriculum with his students, working alongside community members to identify and integrate student assets and desires into science learning opportunities. Now, as an assistant professor, he seeks to support novice teachers in engaging in similar, student-driven practices, and to help the teachers in developing their own critical consciousness of systems of power and oppression innate in our school system. Research interests of Dr. Adams include supporting novice teachers through the difficult first few years of teaching, integrating social justice into a novice teacher's pedagogical toolbox, meaning making as a lens for understanding teacher or student learning, and developing his own critical consciousness of the history of teaching and science.
