Biology Teachers

After a day of planning, we were able to walk away with daily lessons for Unit 6 January 24 through February 12 covering Evolution and Classfication. Thank you for your hard work building student success and achievement.

Biology Planning Resources

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KzsIWUtWHcSDJPa3RrZXUzdFE/edit?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KzsIWUtWHcTnVWTWx2TUdzazg/edit?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KzsIWUtWHcUWVXbUF4MGV6czQ/edit?usp=sharing Agenda STAAR Released Test 2013 Answer Key

Welcome Biology Teachers!

January 23, 2014 Planning Day The resources for today will be posted here. Thank you for making an impact for our students.

Survey Summary

Summary What did you find most useful about today's presentation? How to incorporate project learning into our CF Moving forward as a department with a united front about project-based learning. Student Centered learning ideas How to use Project Base Learning in my classroom The PBL video on Sammanish HS I learned that we always have to bring different ideas each year to help us teach PBL Video about PBL. more detail and awareness of PBL's What tools or ideas will you be implementing in your classroom? Long term units that are more student driven Vertical alignmnet - making a bigger planned effort to connect to their previous learning experiences as well as connecting with those teachers about methods and strategies i would do the card speaking thing. and would try at least one pbl a semester talking tiles , appointment clock, Hooks for critical thinking PBL lesson planning I like the cause and effect for different parts of physics PBL based unit or two PBL more of the google drive abilities, random calling app, everything What other ideas or suggestions would you add to make student learning the focus of the classroom? grouping mechanisms and graphic organizers such as appointment clock and talk tiles Somehow having more planning and connection with other departments so that student expectations are campus-wide and we can do PBL's cross-curriculum realistic timed pbls mind maps, labs Free Field Trip Resources I like and let my students struggle with material because this allows critical thinking. Try, Fail, Try agian, Fail better. n/a teacher training on PBL, assign topics to students to teach a lesson in the week... Number of daily responses

Driving Student Learning

Links to All Files

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Critical Thinking Survey

http://www.thinkwatson.com/mythinkingstyles-start