David Stroupe
David Stroupe is the research assistant for the TLT grant, and a Ph.D. student in science education at the University of Washington. His research interests involve relationships between teacher education, ambitious equitable science teaching, and knowledge for teaching. Specifically, he is interested in how preservice science teachers' knowledge for teaching and subject-specific pedagogical reasoning evolve as they move through a teacher education program and begin teaching in contexts with diverse learners. David hopes to improve traditional science teacher education by developing a core set of high-leverage ambitious practices that helps preservice science teachers develop expert-like reasoning about their knowledge and practice.
David graduated from Davidson College with a biology degree (specializing in herpetology: the study of amphibians and reptiles), and moved to Houston where he was certified to teach middle school and high school life sciences through an alternative certification program. He taught middle school science for four years in the Houston Independent School District, and finished his Master's degree in science education at the University of Houston in 2008.
