This unique resource is packed with novel and innovative ideas and activities you can put to use immediately to enliven and enrich your teaching of biology, streamline your classroom management, and free up your time to accomplish the many other tasks teachers constantly face.
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This unique resource is packed with novel and innovative ideas and activities you can put to use immediately to enliven and enrich your teaching of biology, streamline your classroom management, and free up your time to accomplish the many other tasks teachers constantly face.
For easy use, materials are printed in a big 8 ¼" x 11" spiral-bound format that opens flat for photocopying of evaluation forms and student activity sheets, and are organized into five distinct sections:
1. Innovative Classroom Techniques for the Teacher present techniques to help you stimulate active student participation in the learning process, including an alternative to written exams... way to increase student responses to questions and discussion topics... a student study clinic mini-course... extra credit projects... a way to involve students in correcting their own tests... and more.
2. Success-Directed Learning in the Classroom shows how you can easily make your students accountable for their own learning and eliminate your role of villain in the grading process.
3. General Classroom Management provides solutions to a variety of management issues, such as laboratory safety, the student opposed to dissection, student lateness to class, and the chronic discipline problem, as well as innovative ways to handle such topics as keeping current in subject-matter content, parent-teacher conferences, preventing burnout, and more.
4. An Inquiry Approach to Teaching details a very effective approach that allows the students to participate as real scientists in a classroom atmosphere of inquiry learning as opposed to lab manual cookbook learning.
5. Sponge Activities gives you 100 reproducible activities you can use at the beginning of, during, or at the end of class periods. These are presented in a variety of formats and cover a wide range of biology topics, including the cell... classification... plants... animals... protists... the microscope... systems of the body... anatomy... physiology... genetics... and health.
And to help you quickly locate appropriate worksheets in Section 5, all 100 worksheets in the section are listed in alphabetical order in the Contents, from Algae (Worksheet 5-1) through Vitamins and Minerals (Worksheet 5-100).
For the beginning teacher new to the classroom situation as well as the more experienced teacher who may want a "new lease on teaching," Biology Teacher's Survival Guide is designed to bring fun, enjoyment, and profit to the teacher-student rapport that is called teaching.
About the Author
Michael F. Fleming, Ed. D., has taught biology, anatomy and physiology, microbiology, and behavioral science in the Council Rock School System of Newton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for over 32 years. Dr. Fleming has presented papers at conventions of the National Association of Biology Teachers and has published articles in The American Biology Teacher and Focus. He is the author of Life Science Labs Kit (1985) and Science Teacher's Instant Labs Kit (1991), also published by The Center for Applied Research in Education.
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This review is from: Biology Teacher's Survival Guide (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)
I found this biology survival guide to be very helpful in my first year of teaching high school biology. The book was filled with a alot of good ideas, puzzles and sponge activities. The guide was very easy to follow and had well written worksheets with the answers available in the back of the text. The guide covered all the major areas in biology so I could always use something from the guide (including labs and fun projects). It also includes helpful classroom management suggestions such as dealing with parent teacher conferences, writing letters to parents (good and bad),etc...I have enjoyed this guide and would reccomend it to anyone.
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This review is from: Biology Teacher's Survival Guide: Tips, Techniques & Materials for Success in the Classroom (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)
This book contains several ready to use worksheets. They are easy to adapt to a particular unit. I have especially appreciated this book when expecting a substitute teacher, because it contains activities to help reinforce prior teaching. The activities include complex as well as basic ideas. It has been a big help to me during my first year of teaching Biology.
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Excellent reproducible items,
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This review is from: Biology Teacher's Survival Guide: Tips, Techniques & Materials for Success in the Classroom (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)
I found this to be a very useful tool for teaching Biology. There are many puzzles and activities covering different Biology units, including genetics, physiology, and cell biology. Students enjoy the variety and the puzzles go along with most typical high school Biology textbooks.
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The first section of the Biology Teacher's Survival Guide presents 24 innovative techniques you can begin to use at once to motivate real student interest in the learning process. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
appropriate numbered letters, indophenol solution, edible model, game board frame, preventing teacher burnout, letter scramble, classroom screen, yeast solution, molasses solution, costume construction, proper square, techniques sessions, grade option, lab teams, proper counterpart, boldfaced word, anticipated answer, study cards, student contract, opaque projector, rain date, classroom seminar, course achievement, course handbook Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Anatomy Awards Program, Classroom Techniques, Management Techniques, General Biology, Facts of Biology, Name That Category Read, Letter Search Locate, Date Needed, Word Scramble Read, Pine Street, Ridgeway Park, School Night, Creative Drawing Contest Entry New!
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The first section of the Biology Teacher's Survival Guide presents 24 innovative techniques you can begin to use at once to motivate real student interest in the learning process. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
appropriate numbered letters, indophenol solution, edible model, game board frame, preventing teacher burnout, letter scramble, classroom screen, yeast solution, molasses solution, costume construction, proper square, techniques sessions, grade option, lab teams, proper counterpart, boldfaced word, anticipated answer, study cards, student contract, opaque projector, rain date, classroom seminar, course achievement, course handbook Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Anatomy Awards Program, Classroom Techniques, Management Techniques, General Biology, Facts of Biology, Name That Category Read, Letter Search Locate, Date Needed, Word Scramble Read, Pine Street, Ridgeway Park, School Night, Creative Drawing Contest Entry New!
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- Preparing Instructional Objectives by Robert Mager on page 78
- The Digestive System (A Wiley medical publication) by Robert J. Bolt in Back Matter
- Preparing Instructional Objectives by Robert F. Mager on page 78
- Life Science Labs Kit by Michael F. Fleming in Front Matter
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