Denise was a biology student teacher who demonstrated in-depth knowledge of biology with solid academic biology undergraduate and masters degree programs after more than 10 years in another career unrelated to education. Her Master’s work focused on ecology and environmental biology where she did extensive work as a habitat surveyor for the forest service, for 1 year before coming to the preservice program. In her career previous to the college level work, she worked with computer-based technologies designed to maintain communications among different field locations.