Mentor Experiences
Co-Teaching for the mentor/student teacher experience has morphed into me needing to leave the room. I found myself barking at students while she was in charge of the room. Also, I'm in the hall so often being out of the classroom that I'm seeing a lot of hallway behaviors I never saw before, but I should just go to the library and work on lesson plans for the next quarters.
Planning new lessons
What is the best way to teach Macromolecules? Build models, identifying known and unknown macromolecules labs, teacher directed notes, video clips, graphic organizers, connection to food, Mcmush lab, food label lab???A colleague from the national AP Biology teacher facebook group posted a foldable and sketch notes that looks like a hamburger. Each part of the burger is a different flap. We are very excited to make these next class.
We will rush through them in AP. We are finishing the Rock Pocket Mouse Allele Frequency lab tomorrow and collecting data on our fast plants. We shared data on a google doc and it was amazingly well done by my students. The statistics excel tutorials from HHMI are such help and we will use them to establish statistics from our height data. I will walk them through the lab report format for the Wisconsin Fast Plant adaptation lab as they use inquiry to explore the reproductive and heredity aspects of plants. Ask Botany teacher for help and use the greenhouse?
Reflecting on implemented lessons and strategies
It has been my first successful attempt at differentiating for both ESL and IEP in the introductory lesson for introduction to atoms of life CHNOPS. We gave ESL1 students copies of the vocabulary and periodic tables in their own languages (Spanish and Somali) and supported IEP students with reading strategies for the text. However, in doing so we realized that for those 10 it worked but the other 30 kids were bored the assignment of reading and answering 35 questions was not a great fit. They built models with toothpicks and marshmallows.
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