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About Your Instructor Education

Mr. Darren Dressen, M.S. Grew up in Minnesota, Mounds View High School Brief minor league baseball career with KC Royals B.S. in chemistry from small, liberal arts college in MN, St. John’s University Worked as a chef M.S. in chemistry from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

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About Your Instructor Education

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  1. Mr. Darren Dressen, M.S. • Grew up in Minnesota, Mounds View High School • Brief minor league baseball career with KC Royals • B.S. in chemistry from small, liberal arts college in MN, St. John’s University • Worked as a chef • M.S. in chemistry from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor • Graduate work at North Dakota State University • Medicinal chemist for 16 years at Elan Pharmaceuticals (Over 40 patents and papers on Alzheimer’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis) • Teaching credential from Cal State East Bay • Student taught at James Logan High School last year • Working on my M.S. degree in Education at CSUEB presently About Your InstructorEducation

  2. Mr. Darren Dressen About You InstructorPersonal • 3 children (Hunter (17) autistic in special education, Severine (19) studying nursing in Germany, Theresa (21) studying nutrition at UC Davis. • Wife (Caroline) is 5th grade teacher (Fremont) and professor of multimedia design at Ohlone Community College. • Spend a lot of time in Germany and France because my wife is citizen of those two countries. • Still play competitive baseball • Like to garden and cook the stuff I grow • Play Black Ops way too much

  3. 5% Participation 15% Homework/Classwork 15% Quizzes 25% Labs/Projects 40% Tests About This Course Homework is for you … to do well on tests …. to understand Classwork becomes homework

  4. About This Course Semester Final 20% …. Uugh!

  5. About This Course: Supplies Pencils (Chemistry is a pencil science) Pens (Blue or Black ink) Organized Binder (CIS has suggested sections) Textbook (We have a class set yeah!!!) Non-graphing scientific calculator

  6. When you come into class … -Pick up handouts -Get out your notes and writing implements -Start warm-up as soon as class starts -If you are tardy … sign into tardy log. Procedures

  7. If you missed class the day(s) before … 1) Check out class website for what you missed 2) Ask a friend for notes 3) Go to weekly agenda clipboard 4) Get handouts from little portable file 5) ….. Then ask Mr. Dressen Procedures

  8. Bathroom … -Sign Up On Back Board -Every minute you are gone you owe me 3 minutes at lunch (Room 210)* Procedures *Some people can’t do lunch so we will discuss when a better time is available

  9. A Typical Day (Not Lab Day) • Warm Up (1/2 sheet of paper) • Agenda for the Day • If Homework is Due (We will go over few problems before handing in or homework check) • -Class instruction will end with 5-7 min. to go • -At that time you will be asked some reflection • ?’s on the day (same 1/2 sheet of paper as the warm-up, on back) • -When bell rings … you will hand your ½ sheet of paper into me as an exit slip (participation grade)

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