Suzanne Thuecks

My professional interests include teaching writing in the science classroom, curricular design, and instructional coaching.

I teach ballet technique classes for Dance Club.

Education

Master of Arts in Teaching, Science Education, University of Iowa, 2004

Bachelor of Arts, Lawrence University, 2002, majors in interdisciplinary science (Biology/Chemistry) and French, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Research

Conference Presentations:

• National ABLE conference, University of Maryland, June 2024, with Dan Johnson from Wake Forest University, “Take this grading and bin it: Simplify lab report grading with the bins-based grading system”; 45-minute workshop 
• National ABLE conference, University of California-San Diego, June 2023, “Inquiring minds want to know: Incorporating inquiry and experimental design into existing labs”; 45-minute workshop 
• National ABLE conference, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, June 2022, “Making grating less grating”; 45-minute workshop 
• National ABLE conference, University of Ottawa, Canada, June 2019, “Do the write thing: Eight mini-activities to refine students' writing”; 3 hour teaching workshop presented twice  
• Invited workshop, Biology Department, Shenandoah University, September 2019, “A Hard Day's Write: Teaching Writing in the Lab with a Minimum of Pain and Suffering”; 3-hour workshop  
• National ABLE conference, The Ohio State University, June 2018, “A Hard Day's Write: Teaching Writing in the Lab with a Minimum of Pain and Suffering”; 45-minute workshop 
• National ABLE conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2017, “The Write Stuff: A stations-based activity to teach scientific reading, writing, and revision” –updated version of the activity presented in October and used in BIO112; 3-hour teaching workshop presented twice  
• Washington College Faculty Institute, April 2017, “Let's Give ‘Em Something to Talk About: Encouraging Thoughtful, Engaged Classroom Discussions”—45-minute workshop co-presented with Raven Bishop 

Publications

• Thuecks SE. 2020. Do the write thing: Eight mini-activities to refine students' writing. Article 18 in: McMahon K, editor. Tested studies for laboratory teaching. Volume 41. Proceedings of the 41st Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE).  
  https://doi.org/10.37590/able.v41.art18 
• Thuecks SE. 2018. The Write Stuff: A stations-based activity to teach scientific reading, writing, and revision. Article 18 in:
  McMahon K, editor. Tested studies for laboratory teaching. Volume 39. Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Association
  for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE).  (link)
• Thuecks SE. 2019. A Hard Day's Write: Teaching writing in the lab with a minimum of pain and suffering. Article 53 In: McMahon K, editor. Tested studies for laboratory teaching. Volume 40. Proceedings of the 40th Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE). (link)

Professional Experience

• 11 years of previous experience as a classroom teacher and teacher mentor in grades 8-12, the last year of which included instructional coaching.
• Workshop: September 2019, Shenandoah University invited workshop for biology faculty. A Hard Day's Write: Teaching writing in the lab with a minimum of pain and suffering.