The document provides an overview of the author's background and interests in teaching science. It discusses the author's bachelor's degree in psychology, work in clinical research, and interest gained in teaching from an MAT program. The author is interested in teaching biology and researching successful technology integration strategies. Two slides address the roles of teachers and students in the classroom and the basic principles of the scientific method.

1. Sitting in the Science Center

2. In Pod 9 looking at the billboards

3. Stairway leading outside the pods, looking at the ocean view

4. Looking at the building from a distance, nice mountain view

5. Thought I’d check out the observatory

6. Assessment and Evaluation Page

7. Overview of Modules

8. About Me
• Bachelors in Psychology
• Worked in clinical research, reading medical
charts, developing treatment plans, assessing
adverse events, etc
• Taught Medical Assistant Students where I
started to gain an interest in pursing teaching
• Current topic of interest within teaching is the
trend towards technology in the classroom

9. During the MAT program
• Learned a lot from classroom observations
• One of the most important things I learned
from observation was classroom control
• Found out a lot of things I did not know about
certification procedures
• Learned about IEP plans, something I was not
familiar with before

10. Future Outlook
• I am interested in teaching biology in the
classroom
• Researching successful integration of
technology in the classroom
• Would be interested in learning more about
experiences of my fellow colleagues

11. Teaching Science
• Two different aspects: Teaching and Science
• The next slide addresses teaching which is
interaction of the teacher with the student
• The teacher’s role is to define the material and
expectation of learning, furthermore the teacher
assess progress and makes changes to enhance
student performance
• The students role is to be an active participant in
learning by knowing class expectations, reading,
assessing their progress and seeking additional
resources if they need them

12. Teacher Student
What Knowledge Do I know what I
and Skills do have to do in
students need? order to succeed
in this class?
Do I spend
Develop Lesson enough time
Plan reading?
Am I learning the
Assess Learning
material?
What resources
Modify teaching
can I refer to for
based on student
additional
assessment
information?

13. Scientific Method
• The next slide addresses teaching science
• The basis of which is the Scientific Method
• We can see the basic principles are forming a
hypothesis, conducting background research,
coming up with an experiment and finally
obtaining our results
• These are the basics of course as students
progress they will learn of validity, alpha and beta
errors, null hypothesis and reformulating the
hypothesis based on results

14. Scientific Method
Background Conduct Obtain
Hypothesis
Research Experiment Results