Garner uses a variety of teaching styles and learning tools to create a classroom environment driven by investigation, exploration and discovery of mathematics. She engages her students in actively thinking, talking and writing about mathematics, and the assessments she develops probe the level of students’ understanding and learning. An expert in interdisciplinary teaching, she collaborated in the development and implementation of a course titled Mathematics in Music, Art, Drama and Politics. In 2006, Garner received the Outstanding Teaching Award at KSU.