Teaching High School Biology

Welcome to your multimedia life science course! Enhance the way you learn and teach science, using exploration, discovery, and rich-media resources.

This course focuses on three elements: inquiry and other teaching strategies, use of multimedia in teaching and learning, and ways to apply these to enhance specific content knowledge. Course goals include:

• drawing meaningful parallels between scientific inquiry and classroom inquiry;
• identifying the benefits of an inquiry-based approach to science education;
• exploring a range of teaching methodologies and strategies for topics teachers and students find most challenging, including genetics, evolution, and cell biology;
• reflecting on the theory of lesson design, and incorporating the use of multimedia;
• drawing on a media-rich learning environment that you can use with your students; and
• using classroom-practice videos to model ways of teaching beyond the textbook.