Mike Thibodeau teaches in the M.Ed. in Science in Education online program. He has been a science educator at the middle school, high school, and college levels for many years. In 1991, he was selected to participate in the Teacher Research Associates Program and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working on the Hayward Fault Trench Project, and later mentored other teachers in the program.
He has also been coordinator of the Academies Creating Teacher Scientists Program, a research program for in-service teachers supported by the US Department of Energy's Office of Science. He was honored by that department in 2004 with an "Outstanding Service as Master Teacher with the Pre-Service Teacher Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" award, and has also received the Tandy Technology Scholars Award for Excellence in Science Teaching.
Mike is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers, the National Science Teachers Association, and the National Earth Science Teachers Association.