Environmental Science
Instructor: John Madden
John received his bachelor’s degree in Geosciences from the University of Missouri – Kansas City and his master’s in Secondary Education
and Geochemistry from the University of Arizona. After teaching environmental science, chemistry and geology for 20 years in the public school system in Tucson, Arizona,
John spent two years as the Science Education Program Coordinator for SAHRA, an NSF Science and Technology Center for Riparian Studies in Semi-arid Regions
headquartered in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona in 2007 before accepting the Science and Math Department Chair position
at the Ashley Hall School in Charleston, SC.
He has been involved in the Advanced Placement Environmental Science program since 1996 when he participated in the first Environmental Science AP "Train-the-Trainers"
workshop held at the University of Arkansas – Little Rock where approximately twenty-five high school teachers and college faculty members gathered to design and
explore the initial AP Environmental Science curriculum and develop appropriate laboratory experiences for the new course. He has been a College Board Consultant since
1998 and had run numerous one-day workshops as well as summer institutes in Arizona, Washington, Maine, Michigan and California. He has participated as a Reader,
Table Leader and Question Leader for ten years at the annual AP Environmental Science Exam Readings.
In addition to his work with the AP program, he has served as a consultant with the Praxis Teacher Certification program in Earth Sciences. John is also a trainer and
workshop leader for IEEIA (Investigating and Evaluating Environmental Issues and Actions), a project-based inquiry model of instruction developed by the Center for
Instruction, Staff Development and Evaluation (CISDE) at Southern Illinois University. Since 1995, John has taught the Earth Science Teaching Methods course for the
Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona as well as the Inquiry and Water Issues graduate course for teachers in the Department of Hydrology and Water
Resources. In 2003-04, he served as the Teacher-In-Residence for the College of Science Teacher Preparation Program. And in 2006, he received the Presidential Award
for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. You can e-mail John at maddenj1@comcast.net
