5- The Dead Rats: Success!
In contrast to my first attempt with Dead Rat fun times a year ago, Endocrine Rats lab activity last week was very popular with my students. I ended up recording a brief lecture to help guide them through the process…
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Posts related to the philosophy of teaching
HAPS Leadership (#16): HAPS-Institute
Are you looking for graduate credit in the field of Anatomy & Physiology? Are you looking to share your expertise on a specific A&P-related topic with peers who are as passionate as you about the subject matter? If the answer…
4- APS Archive Activity: The Dead Rats
I wonder how many Physiology students dropped my class this semester when they saw the “Dead Rats” activity on the course schedule. There certainly have been many who tentatively ask me about that particular activity. After briefly traumatizing them with…
3- Community
Don’t tell anyone, but I would be willing to pay TEN TIMES my HAPS dues to be a member of the society, because my HAPS membership is THAT valuable to me. Now, I’m certainly glad I don’t have to pay…
2- Getting ready for the tornado!
I am taking advantage of my last few relatively empty days before the new-semester-tornado hits me full in the face. Many of the items on my ToDo list from the last week are HAPS related. I already nominated a student…
HAPS Leadership (#13): Central Regional Director
“Baltimore…somewhere in the 90s. That was my first HAPS conference. Since then, I’ve attended most of the annual conferences, served on a few committees, contributed articles to the HAPS-EDucator, and worked on the effort to archive past issues of the…
1- The Archive of Teaching Resources
Greetings HAPSters! It is great to be getting ready for a fresh new semester of flippin’ fun times. This promises to be a special semester, because after five years of working as an adjunct at my school, I have been…
Flipping A & P: Hi, my name is Elaine and I’m a K+ ion!
I’m always getting crazy ideas. Sometimes they’re crazy good ideas, sometimes just plain crazy. This week’s crazy idea came out of my frustration with teaching cell membrane potentials. It’s a very difficult… no, that’s too negative…challenging concept for students. A…
Flipping A&P: Going All The Way
I’ve been in a relationship with Flipping for over a year now. I think it’s time to take this relationship to the next level. It’s time to ‘Go All The Way’. That’s right, Flipped Mastery. I really love flipping my…
Flipping A & P: Taking a Hit
I’m so glad that my Associate Dean warned me about the hit I would take on my student evaluations when I decided to flip my courses. Without that warning, I would have been devastated by the response after my first…