I wonder how many Physiology students dropped my class this semester when they saw the “Dead Rats” activity on the course schedule. There certainly have been many who tentatively ask me about that particular activity. After briefly traumatizing them with…
I’m always getting crazy ideas. Sometimes they’re crazy good ideas, sometimes just plain crazy. This week’s crazy idea came out of my frustration with teaching cell membrane potentials. It’s a very difficult… no, that’s too negative…challenging concept for students. A…
I’ve been in a relationship with Flipping for over a year now. I think it’s time to take this relationship to the next level. It’s time to ‘Go All The Way’. That’s right, Flipped Mastery. I really love flipping my…
I’m so glad that my Associate Dean warned me about the hit I would take on my student evaluations when I decided to flip my courses. Without that warning, I would have been devastated by the response after my first…
I work out. I don’t particularly enjoy it, but I make myself do it for my own good. Sound in mind and body, that sort of thing. So I was in the college fitness center, using the strength training equipment,…
It is about this time in the spring semester that both students and faculty alike begin to ask themselves, “Is it over yet?” The answer, of course, is no it is not. For most, there are 4-5 more weeks of…
Spring break ended last week and we were all back to school. I tried to lessen the blow by doing some fun activities and trying to get the kids thinking about our next system: the digestive system. We tried an…
I have successfully made it to my first spring break as a teacher! I’ve often joked throughout this year that I think I’ve worked harder and learned more as a teacher than I ever did in college or high school,…
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from someone in the Educational Outreach Center at a local medical school. They have designed a unit on the cardiovascular system and cardiovascular health and hope to eventually take it public,…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of my driving forces as a high school teacher is to address and reconstruct my students’ misconceptions. What misconceptions do you find that your students have most often? How do you address…