Mark Greenman
National Science Foundation
Undergraduate Education Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program and Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program
Massachusetts – Grades 11-12, Physics and Administration
Mark D. Greenman has served as a physics teacher, teacher mentor, K-12 computer director, K-12 math director and K-12 science director for Marblehead Public Schools, a school district just north of Boston Massachusetts. He has worked with more than 400 teachers throughout Massachusetts providing laboratory-based content institutes through grants won from the state of Massachusetts. Mark has published articles in teaching methodology, teacher preparation, computer education, electrodynamics and electronics, and he shares best practices and his enthusiasm for teaching and learning through presentations and workshops at national and regional conferences.
Mark brings to his teaching a passion for science and a philosophy that can be succinctly expressed as “nature speaks.” His teaching style is that of a facilitator and arbiter of intellectual debate. New ideas are paraded in front of students through laboratory experiences that lead to dialog, debate, and directed consensus. Nature is presented as the final authority. Mark’s class whether for young adults, new teachers, or veteran teachers is filled with high expectations for all, lively and respectful dialog, and humor. Mark’s greatest satisfaction as a teacher comes when he sees the joy he has for science and math reflected back to him through his students’ eyes.
Mark holds a M.S. in physics and a B.A. in physics with a minor in mathematics. Mark has been inducted into the physics national honor society (Sigma Pi Sigma), math national honor society (Kappa Mu Epsilon), and is recipient of the Massachusetts Educational Technology Advisory Council’s Path Finder award, the North Shore Science Supervisors’ Exemplary Teacher award, the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship, and was named the winner of the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching for the state of Massachusetts.