Ms. Miller taught high school science for four years at Norwich High School. This is her fourth year teaching in Deposit. She teaches Earth Science, Natural Disasters, and Environmental Studies. She is also a Science Olympiad and Environthon coach.
Before becoming a high school science teacher, she spent two wonderful years working as a Teacher's Aide in the Special Education Dept. at Hamilton Central School.
Ms. Miller earned her Bachelor of Science from Empire State College in Earth Systems Science and her Masters of Arts in Teaching from Colgate University.
She believes very strongly in staying active in the science teaching community and belongs to STANYS, NSTA, NESTA, and ISTE
Presentations
Duggan-Haas, D., Miler, S., & Henderson, J.
(2010). “What If We Only Taught Five
Things? Big Ideas in Earth Science.” Science Teachers’ Association of New
York State Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY
Duggan-Haas,
D., Ross, R., & Miller, S., (2010).
“Creating Virtual Fieldwork Experiences for Earth Science: Why does this place
look the way it does?” National Science Teachers’ Association Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA.
Duggan-Haas, D.,
Miler, S.,
& Henderson, J. (2009). “What If We Only Taught Five Things? Big Ideas in Earth Science.” Science Teachers’ Association of New York State Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY
Miller, S., Spanneut, J., Dettbarn, M., & Henderson, J. (2007). “Virtual Fieldwork Experiences.” Science Teachers’ Association of New York State Annual Meeting, Ellenville, NY
Miller, S., Spanneut, J. and Dettbarn, M. (2007) “Virtual Fieldwork Experiences” Workshop presented at Colgate University in Conjunction with Teacher’s Center, Hamilton, NY.
Ross, R., Duggan-Haas, D., Miller, S., And Humbert, S. (2006) “Facilitating Acquisition of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Early Career Earth Science Teachers: The Real Earth System Inquiry Project” Abstract presented at Geological Society of America annual conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Duggan-Haas, D., Miller, S., Miller, P. (2006). Uncovering Science Big Ideas. Workshop presented at National Science Teachers Association Conference, Anaheim, CA
Ross, R.; Duggan-Haas, D.; Miller, S.; & Weisberger, B. (2006) “Real Earth System Inquiry: Can Teacher-created Virtual Fieldtrips Promote Inquiry?” Paper presented at the Association for Science Teacher Education Annual Conference, Portland, OR.
Duggan-Haas, D. & Miller, S. (2005) “Big Ideas in Earth Science as a Curriculum Framework.” Paper presented at the Coalition for Earth Science Education (CESE) Meeting, NASA Goddard Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
Duggan-Haas, D. & Miller, S. (2005) “Defining Big Ideas in Earth Science.” Paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Annual Conference, Dallas, TX.
Duggan-Haas, D. and Miller, S. (2004). “Big Ideas in Earth Science.” Workshop presented at Science Teachers Association of New York State, Ellenville, NY
Duggan-Haas, D. Nicholas, J. & Miller, S. (2004) “Managing Effective Student Teacher/Mentor Teacher Relationships.” Workshop presented at Science Teachers Association of New York State, Ellenville, NY
