Summer Travels, part 1
It’s nice to have the summer to travel. For the past few years, I’ve spent most of the summer break driving around the US, visiting family, friends, and points of interest. I can be a workaholic during the school year,…
Category Pedagogy
Posts related to the philosophy of teaching
5- Recording Flipped Lectures
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…
Shadowing: Week 2
Things I learned in my first week as an intern. Don’t use the elevators or stairs closest to the operating rooms! It was no big deal when the elevator wouldn’t go, it let me back out. The stairs though…require a…
4- Many Ways to Flip
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…
3- Flipping Every Day?!
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…
2- Selling the Flip
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…
Getting In
I decided to be a role model, so had to go through the motions of applying. The easiest part was paying the $20 application fee. Having been a professor of anatomy for over 15 years, I have done my share…
1- It’s Flippin’ Fun!
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…
HAPS and POGIL
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…
Interning
Last Fall I got roped into serving as an advisor to our “Caduceus Club” at Pasadena City College. These students want to go into health-related careers…and even if I never did, I agreed to open a classroom once a…