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Building Biology Curriculum and Community

Building Biology Curriculum and Community. Welcome Picture Introduction Posters Chose a photo that best represents your teaching experience with one standard Choose another picture that represents your learning style

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Building Biology Curriculum and Community

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  1. Building Biology Curriculum and Community • Welcome • Picture Introduction Posters • Chose a photo that best represents your teaching experience with one standard • Choose another picture that represents your learning style • Make a poster annotating each picture with your name and school and why you chose each poster • Group Norms • Share Picture Introduction Posters

  2. Presurvey • What are the biggest ideas in biology that you want students to remember for at least 40 years?

  3. Overview and Goals of Workshop • Familiarize participants with the state CIM standards and (draft) district standards for the class. • Design logical and engaging maps through the curriculum to meet standards. • Reinforce use of best practices, including Understanding by Design (UbD), focusing particularly on the learning cycle model, authentic performance tasks, essential questions, inquiry, group work, differentiation, and professional collegial groups. • Familiarize participants with the new biology text and the other adopted texts. • Train participants in use of adopted lab equipment and share best labs.

  4. Best Practices Brainstorm • Use Post its to brainstorm with your group as many best practices as you can think of • Post on Grid and Discuss • CFG Consultancy best practice

  5. Introduction to Text • Group skits-sales rep selling to teachers • Highlight strong points and layout of text • How does text fit with best practices?

  6. Develop Grid • Brainstorm-What do we want students to understand from Biology? • Fill is grid now and all week

  7. CFG Text Based Protocol • Final Word • Article-Systems Based Thinking • Color Marking

  8. Common Assignment • Homeostasis • Make overheads of graphic organizers or how to accomplish student understanding of this topic • Discuss timeline, strategies, fit to standards and best practices and the importance of literacy to science

  9. Vernier Show and Tell

  10. Group Challenge • Challenge groups to prepare a lab to share that involves the adopted equipment. Emphasize teaching the use of lab equipment that others might not be familiar with, fit to the standards and best practices. • Think-write-share-decide-implement Emphasize big ideas about the labs. • What essential questions does the lab address? • What will you expect students to UNDERSTAND based on the lab? • What process skills will they use? • What makes the lab important? Where it fits on the grid. • What makes the lab effective? What best practices it employs.

  11. Reflection on the day’s activities • Write personal reflection • 3x5 card-Key Learnings and Muddiest Points

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