November 19, 2012 Callback

I currently teach science (AP Biology, Honors Biology, & Biotechnology) at TechBoston Academy, a pilot school of the Boston Public Schools system.  I can't even begin to count the ways in which my summer experience over at Boston University (RET @BU) have influenced my practice.  First and foremost, I have posted my BU RET presentation poster in the classroom and every one inquires about.  In addition, I take pride in telling my students about being a life long learner and my journey in improving my skills to better serve them.  As the various curriculums are gearing more toward inquiry based learning, my BSCS biology curriculum is already well on its way.  So, I used my RET experience to highlight some of the great inquiry based lessons I have been delivering as well as developing others.  One area of emphasis is an increase in case study in my curriculum.  Interestingly, I have had lessons that were actual case studies and were taught as such, but were never assumed the nomenclature.

Being that I am a mentor teacher as well as site liaison, my experience is shared not only with my teacher intern but with six other teacher interns at my school.  I also served as a guest presenter to 40 plus teacher interns in my classroom; again, my poster was another topic of conversation.  I meet with teachers from many other schools that host teacher interns and I share my experience with them as the meetings takes place in my room.... I almost failed to mention that I am involved with a program (Hinton Scholars) over at Harvard Medical School and there again I share my experience, especially the case studies, with my colleagues.