Building Biology Curriculum and Community

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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

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Presurvey

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

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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.

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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

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Introduction to Text

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

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Develop Grid

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

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CFG Text Based Protocol

• Final Word
• Article-Systems Based Thinking
• Color Marking

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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

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Vernier Show and Tell
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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.

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Reflection on the days activities

• Write personal reflection
• 3x5 card-Key Learnings and Muddiest Points