Ms Allie’s professional career started as a biological scientist full time and a science educator part time.  The path of her destiny as an inspirational science educator and researcher in science education started when these roles were swopped driven by her passion for teaching and learning.  While doing biological sciences, her role as an educator with exemplary teaching for understanding was indicative of the numerous awards she won for best poster and oral presentations at national and international conferences.  This was further emphasized as her role as lecturer by her consistent positive student feedback showing the good relationship she had with students.  In 2009 she quit her lecturing post and research in biological sciences to pursue a formal profession in science education.  She is currently a permanent lecturer (since 2015) and part time doctoral student in science education at the School of Science and Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape in the beautiful town of Cape Town, South Africa.  In 2017 she was awarded the faculty’s Emerging Lecturer's Award of Excellence in Teaching and Learning.  This can be attributed to her innovative skills in the effective use of technology in education as well as her current research based lecture topics in her classrooms.  She is particularly interested in the identification of alternative misconceptions (of science education students and teachers) on challenging science topics and instructional tools to address it.  Furthermore, her research also include the role that alternative conceptions play in the conceptual understanding of science topics.