Welcome to my class website!
My name is Meredith Kersting and I am a biology teacher at Northwest Guilford High School. I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with an undergraduate degree in biology and a teaching license in secondary science education. I graduated from Wake Forest University with a Masters of Education. I am originally from Raleigh, NC, and relocated to the Triad area to teach with Guilford County Schools. This is my twelfth year teaching.
Outside of school, my hobbies include trying out new recipes, reading, and hanging out with my husband and daughters. Even though I am not an English teacher, I think you can learn a lot about a person based on what they like to read. I also think the best way to do better in school and prepare for success both in school and in the workforce is to read often. Some of my all-time favorites include: Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis) Blue like Jazz (D. Miller) The Nightingale (K. Hannah) The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien) The Kingkiller Chronicle series (Patrick Rothfuss) -- been waiting on book three with bated breath for over six years now! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (R. Skloot) Pride and Prejudice (J. Austen) Les Misérables (V. Hugo) La Ciudad de las Bestias (I. Allende) Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling) The Book of Life (Deborah Harkness) While in college, my studies focused on molecular genetics and the genetics of disease resistance. I worked as a student researcher in a plant pathogen laboratory at UNC my sophomore, junior, and senior years of college. There I learned how to use much of the biotechnology you’ll hear about in our class. It was while working as a student researcher that I truly learned what it means to be a scientist. Real scientists aren’t all grumpy old men who spend their time wandering around in white lab coats. Science is such a neat topic to study because it provides us tools we can use to understand and manipulate the world of living things around us. Scientists were behind many of the major advancements in the quality of human life in the past two centuries, and biology may hold the key to solving many of the problems of the 21st century, such as emergent disease epidemics and the energy crisis. I am excited to share with you my passion for teaching science and I invite you to explore the links on this website. |