Both business and education are focusing on creativity. Why? Because new ideas are needed. What the world needs now (besides love, sweet love) is new ideas to handle to host of problems we face as a culture, a nation, and a species. We have not been nurturing creative thinking or problem solving in our educational …
Think outside the box with technology. There are 2 ideas here – both from high school teachers. 1) The following information comes from a high school language teacher in England. Mr. Picardo is also a consultant and speaker who educates educators on using technology to enhance education. More about him and his endeavors can be …
Attitude contributes (or detracts) greatly from academic success. This link is for a 1 page tool that students can use to determine their learning style. http://anatomyphysiologystudyguide.com/wp-content/study/active-passive.pdf
Movement & Music · Create accompanying movement for pathways or processes. Whenever you describe a movement – for example the alternate beating of atria and ventricles – try and demonstrate the movement yourself using your hands or other body part. Challenge students to come up with a movement that is representative. Have them all mimic …
Involving literature / movies * Have students read The Fantastic Voyage (or watch the movie) and look for accuracies and/or mistakes about what the voyagers encounter while traveling in their miniaturized submarine through the human body. * Have students add to the book / movie by writing a new scene wherein the characters encounter something …
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Creative Writing suggestions: Helping students to see the stories involved in A&P can increase interest. Have your students try the following ideas: · Write an advertisement for a body part / physiological pathway or process: film or present it live. · Write a limerick about parts or function. · Present a disease process from the …
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When students make connections between facts, ideas, pathways, processes, styles, fields of study or problems, they are more likely to: remember what they’ve thought about in making that connection; be engaged by the process and think some more; seek further information or connections. I don’t have evidence for this beyond personal experience as a teacher …
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1) Struggling students do not think creatively (at least about the topic they struggle with) 2) Learning from the Experts I am guessing that every teacher reading this was a good student. An interest in teaching, research, or pedagogy in general rarely arises in someone for whom school is a struggle, or even a nightmare. …
Choose from the following activities / resources to enhance instruction of the urinary system. If there is no class time they can be offered as suggestions of extra-credit possibilities, and after review for accuracy, many projects could be shared on Blackboard to instruct and inspire other students. An * indicates that the activity is 10 …
The following activity can be used to enhance instruction of the respiratory system. This activity is also found under acid/base balance. 1) BUFFER BALL (RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS) · Many students do not understand the chemistry involved in acid/base balance – buffering systems. Here’s a fun way to help them understand. I call it Buffer Ball: Get …