Sheila Marquez
Sheila Marquez has earned a Post-Baccalaureate in Secondary Education University of Arizona (UA), Masters in Science from UA, General Biology for Secondary Teachers and Bachelors Science degree major in General Biology with a split minor in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.
She is currently a Science teacher at Tucson High Magnet School and the main practice used in her anatomy & physiology classes is scientific inquiry. She is always searching for new ways to utilize inquiry in the classroom so that student achievement increases. As she learns new strategies, she incorporates them into her teaching style. Ms. Marquez’s teaching methods have been called “innovative and fun” as they are very hands on and include a variety of activities to keep her classroom engaged. Sheila makes her students feel heard by giving them plenty of opportunities to ask or answer questions and makes accommodations for her students to be more successful in the classroom.
Ms. Marquez is involved in many extracurricular activities involving her student such as serving as the Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) club advisor for 16 years. In doing this she’s brought a team of students to the National competition for MESA for the past 9 summers 8 of which they placed in the top three. She arranged and took 50 plus students to view the Bodies exhibit in Tucson and at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix, attended and cheered on student athletes at a variety of sporting events, chaperoned dances such as prom, homecoming, winter formal and participated alongside with 50 high school students during a summer writing institute at the UA in July 2013.
