Posts related to teaching undergraduate level A&P
It can take some serious momentum to motivate the filming of your own video lectures to flip a class. But once the commitment is made, I think it is important to periodically monitor the student experience with the online lectures.…
As educators, we are used to being vulnerable. We stand in front of crowds (and sometimes very big crowds) of humans and explain what we know. We guide the ship, so to speak, and if we make mistakes, they are…
In the last post, I talked about the many different ways to flip a class. When I decided to flip my classes, I spent a lot of time thinking about my student population and what form of the flip would…
Just like there are many ways to skin a cat (something most A&P teachers probably have extensive personal experience with!), there are also many ways to flip a class. The purpose of a flipped classroom is to motivate students to…
I’ve heard people argue that you don’t have to flip every single class when you first start flipping. After experiencing firsthand the incredible amount of time required to pull off a single flipped lecture, I can really see the value…
When I decided to flip my class, I knew I would need a very convincing explanation to justify the change, for both my students and colleagues. Selling the idea to my colleagues ended up being pretty straight forward. They thought…
My name is Wendy Riggs, and I am an adjunct instructor at College of the Redwoods (CR), a two year community college in Eureka, California. I teach Anatomy, Physiology and non-majors Biology to primarily pre-nursing students. I’ve been teaching at…
Back on May 1st I wrote about professional development and today I would like to expand upon that post and talk to you little bit about the HAPS POGIL project. As some of you may recall one of the leaders…
I am writing this latest blog while on a plane, returning home to Indiana. Like many other HAPS members, I also am a member in several of our sister societies. This past week, many HAPS members put on their American…
This past weekend was the first Conference on Ultrasound in Human Anatomy and Physiology Education. As President elect of HAPS, I was invited to participate in a panel session during the conference. Not sure of what exactly to expect, I traveled…