Biology Lesson Plans This site is a collection of everything biology. It includes lesson plans from anatomy, botany, the cell, genetics, etc. There is also a section just for lab work and experiments to try along with study aids. This was a good start for me because people learn from many different forms of media and I believe this site is important in addressing multiple ways of teaching any topic. They have even included links to other biology site for teaching. For being a good teacher one needs to realize that every student is an individual and not all conventional ways will work for everyone, which is another reason I had chose this site because it opens up a multitude of possibilities for anyone to work with. By teaching using a variety of different resources can help students develop competency in biology as every form of learning can be attended to.
Access Excellence This site is dedicated to honing in on the skills necessary for a teacher to efficiently teach their subject matter, specifically health and bio science. There is a whole section devoted to current topics. Learning is a never ending process and by keeping everything up to date makes a teacher seem a little more in tune with the world around them and therefore can make the material more crucial as to why students should be learning about said content in the first place. This technique of staying informed and seeking out to be a life learner can subconsciously be passed on to students. Not all education is so formal and is also obtained by students following certain mannerisms that the teacher conveys.
The Apple This is a branch off of monster.com. This site allows one to network, find help to create lesson plans or come up with new lessons in general, and how to teach effectively. There are news articles about how people learn and what new resources teachers can use and how to use them. As each student is their own individual with their own set of experiences and ideas it is important to address them as such and this site helps the teacher accomplish this goal. The concept of a "good" teacher is easily talked about, but very difficult to achieve. The Apple is committed to making schools a haven for fostering development of not only the teacher, but the student as well. They provide a compilation of content specific videos and various other resources that will help convey what ever subject is being taught in class (in this case biology). And once again by having diverse methods in teaching the instructor is more likely to effectively convey the material to the student so it is better understood and can then be applied outside of the classroom.
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