1. Please pick up your name tag and sit where you sat yesterday. Thanks! Record your Enduring Knowledge on the back of your name tag where you can see it every day!!!

2. Teaching is not telling Listening is not learning Please pick up your name tag and sit where you sat yesterday. Thanks! Record your Enduring Knowledge on the back of your name tag where you can see it every day!!!

3. How do I support all learners? What is your preferred learning style? What is your preferred learning style? Move to the appropriate table Move to the appropriate table What do you find helpful when you are learning? What do you not find helpful when you are learning. Record your answers on the white boards provided. What do you find helpful when you are learning? What do you not find helpful when you are learning. Record your answers on the white boards provided.

4. Course Outline PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH CHOICE IS A KEY COMPONENT OF THIS CLASS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO USE CLASS TIME TO FOCUS ON A SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING PROJECT THAT WILL HELP YOU BECOME THE KIND OF TEACHER THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE- PLEASE MAKE THE APPROPRIATE ARRANGEMENTS WITH YOUR INSTRUCTOR. IF YOU ARE NOT IN CLASS- YOUR INSTRUCTOR NEEDS TO KNOW HOW YOU ARE USING OUR CLASSROOM TIME (AND ASSOCIATED PREPARATION TIME) TO DIRECT YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH CHOICE IS A KEY COMPONENT OF THIS CLASS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO USE CLASS TIME TO FOCUS ON A SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING PROJECT THAT WILL HELP YOU BECOME THE KIND OF TEACHER THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE- PLEASE MAKE THE APPROPRIATE ARRANGEMENTS WITH YOUR INSTRUCTOR. IF YOU ARE NOT IN CLASS- YOUR INSTRUCTOR NEEDS TO KNOW HOW YOU ARE USING OUR CLASSROOM TIME (AND ASSOCIATED PREPARATION TIME) TO DIRECT YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

5. COURSE OUTLINE Required texts…. Required texts…. What Expert Teachers Do $49.?? What Expert Teachers Do $49.?? STAY SAFE $12.74 STAY SAFE $12.74 Available from the Campus bookstore You decide how to spend the other $100.00-150.00 you would have spent on a text You decide how to spend the other $100.00-150.00 you would have spent on a text

6. Curriculum Guidelines Move back to your “home group” Move back to your “home group” Did you think that the big ideas connected with the overall and the specific expectations in the units you looked at last night? Did you think that the big ideas connected with the overall and the specific expectations in the units you looked at last night? What other questions do you have about the Curriculum Guidelines? What other questions do you have about the Curriculum Guidelines?

7. Another POE Grade 11: Genetic Processes Grade 11: Genetic Processes How can we teach meiosis without lecturing? How can we teach meiosis without lecturing? Meiosis: Meiosis:

8. Another Predict Observe Explain Learning Activity Grade 11: Genetic Processes Grade 11: Genetic Processes How can we teach meiosis without lecturing? How can we teach meiosis without lecturing? Meiosis: Meiosis:

9. Another Predict Observe Explain Learning Activity Grade 11: Genetic Processes Grade 11: Genetic Processes How can we teach meiosis without lecturing? How can we teach meiosis without lecturing? Meiosis: Meiosis:

10. Explore First-Explain Later EXPLORE-everyone has a common experience EXPLORE-everyone has a common experience Student explanations should guide the EXPLAIN portion Student explanations should guide the EXPLAIN portion How does this approach compare to your initial ideas for teaching this “big idea” How does this approach compare to your initial ideas for teaching this “big idea”

11. Thinking about your own teaching? Move back to your learning styles group. Discuss the following… Did this activity appeal to you as a “student” Why? Did this activity appeal to you as a teacher? Why?

12. Thinking about your own teaching? You will be assigned to a different group with colleagues who have a different preferred learning style. Did this activity appeal to you as a “student” Why? Did this activity appeal to you as a teacher? Why?

13. BIO BLOGS- use the paper provided to create a “bio blog”. This is a forum that we can use to communicate with each other. It is also an excellent place to record any new ideas-strategies that you think will support student learning. BIO BLOGS- use the paper provided to create a “bio blog”. This is a forum that we can use to communicate with each other. It is also an excellent place to record any new ideas-strategies that you think will support student learning. Do a walkabout to see what other groups thought would make science interesting- Record any new ideas in your bio blog. Do a walkabout to see what other groups thought would make science interesting- Record any new ideas in your bio blog.

14. YOUR BIO BLOG What did you learn today that supported your ideas about teaching? What did you learn today that supported your ideas about teaching? What did you learn today that you found puzzling? What did you learn today that you found puzzling?

15. For next class- explore the resources on our web site http://www.post.queensu.ca/~christie and find one activity that you could use to let students “EXPLORE FIRST” INSTEAD OF GIVING THEM A NOTE. Print off one activity that you found useful to share next class. For next class- explore the resources on our web site http://www.post.queensu.ca/~christie and find one activity that you could use to let students “EXPLORE FIRST” INSTEAD OF GIVING THEM A NOTE. Print off one activity that you found useful to share next class. http://www.post.queensu.ca/~christie Read pp 71 and 74-75 in the Science Grade 10 Curriculum Guidelines. How do the Big Ideas for Biology (p. 71) connect to the overall and specific expectations for the Biology: Tissues, organs and systems of living things unit? Read pp 71 and 74-75 in the Science Grade 10 Curriculum Guidelines. How do the Big Ideas for Biology (p. 71) connect to the overall and specific expectations for the Biology: Tissues, organs and systems of living things unit? How could you help students learn overall expectation B2? Which specific expectations link to this overall expectation? How could you help students learn overall expectation B2? Which specific expectations link to this overall expectation? Use ONE hour to plan a one hour lesson to help students learn about mitosis using the resources on our course web site. You will share your ideas with your colleagues in class. You will not submit this assignment to your instructor Use ONE hour to plan a one hour lesson to help students learn about mitosis using the resources on our course web site. You will share your ideas with your colleagues in class. You will not submit this assignment to your instructor

16. How Do I make Science Interesting? Discuss the following question with a partner. Discuss the following question with a partner. Do you find the big ideas from Grade 9 Sustainability interesting? Do you think that your students will find them interesting? Why? Why not? Do you find the big ideas from Grade 9 Sustainability interesting? Do you think that your students will find them interesting? Why? Why not?