Ken Bergwerff joined the faculty in the fall of 2001. He came from the Education department at Calvin where he had been supervising student teachers for the previous two years. He completed his undergraduate work at Calvin, receiving a teaching certificate in 1978. From there he went to Redlands, California where he taught all the sciences grades 5-9 for five years. In 1983 he moved back to the Grand Rapids area to teach at Sylvan Christian Middle School. He earned his MAT in Science Education at Grand Valley State University in 1988 while continuing to teach his primary interest: Earth Science. During his tenure at Sylvan, he participated in NSF grants to study the geology of the western parklands, both in 1985 and in 1991. For the past several years, he has been active with providing in service training to middle schools in the US and Canada. During the summer of 2003 he was invited to speak at a conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. While there, he addressed the pedagogy of elementary science teaching and teaching science from a Christian perspective. During the summers of 2002 - 2005, he worked with the Science Education Group in developing inquiry-based science units for area schools. This has been funded by an HHMI grant, a Heuer grant, and a grant from Calvin's Alumni Association.  From 2006 through the present he has done professional development work and curriculum development with area middle and high school teachers funded by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency.

During the Summer of 2001, Mr. Bergwerff developed an introductory biology course for students who are becoming elementary school teachers. This enables the students to learn the content in the same way they will teach it in their own classrooms. During the summer of 2006 he developed a similar course in earth science which he taught for the first time in Interim of 2007. His typical teaching load includes the biology course, SCES 313 which is also a science education course and the supervision of student teachers.

A trip to Liberia, summer of 2008 (funded by the Kuyers Institute), provided the opportunity to train science teachers in schools in the Christian Schools Network as well as conduct seminars for the University of Liberia in inquiry-based teaching.