Offering an anatomy and physiology course through a high school-university partnership: the Minnesota model

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Jensen ◽  
Allison Mattheis ◽  
Anne Loyle
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Concurrent Enrollment ◽  
Program Quality ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
The University ◽  
Student Inquiry

This article describes a one-semester anatomy and physiology course that is currently offered through the concurrent enrollment program at the University of Minnesota. The article explains how high school teachers are prepared to teach the course and describes efforts to promote program quality, student inquiry, and experiential learning. Recommendations are made for anatomy and physiology instructors who are involved in similar endeavors.

Implementing Experiential Learning in High School Agriculture and Forestry Curriculum: A Case Study in Guatemala

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-397
Author(s):  
Henry Quesada ◽  
Julieta Mazzola ◽  
Daniel Sherrard
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Professional Development Training

Background: Design and training methods for instructors on integrating experiential learning continues to be a challenge in high school education. Purpose: This work reports on research concerning the current status, available resources, limitations, and capabilities of high school teachers implementing experiential learning in a technical and vocational high school curriculum in Guatemala. Methodology/Approach: Case study methodology was used to examine professional development training involving the implementation of experiential learning into an agriculture and forestry curriculum. The design of the training included a series of hands-on activities to enable teachers to identify barriers and drivers influencing experiential learning and the redesign of a course program. Findings/Conclusions: Teachers were able to identify resources and limitations affecting the implementation of experiential learning in their teaching program. The guidance and examples provided by the instructors were fundamental for the teachers to modify a standard course program that included significant experiential learning methodologies. Implications: Many high school teachers lack the training and knowledge necessary for integrating experiential learning. Furthermore, in many cases, they are required to follow a structured curriculum that at allows for minimal modifications. Teachers also recognize that courses that only include classroom activities are the most challenging for including experiential learning activities.

News and Notes

1921 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-214
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
National Council ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
The University

Dr. John H. Minnick was elected President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics at the annual meeting at Atlantic City. Dr. Minnick has been unusually active in secondary school mathematics. He is now engaged in training high school teachers in mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania. Many readers will recall Dr. Minnick’s Tests of Abilities in Geometry, a scientific monograph on the nature of the abilities which are involved in proving a proposition in geometry.

scholarly journals The Week-End Astronomy Class for Teachers

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 311-313
Author(s):  
James H. Hensley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Science Assessment ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Course Work ◽  
The University

Astronomy is an integral part of many high-school science programs. Project STAR and the Science Assessment and Research Project at the University of Minnesota have recently recognized this. In addition, astronomy is a part of most elementary and middle-school science programs. In the Platteville, Wisconsin, school system, the solar system is a unit of study for all third grade students and a study of the stars is a part of the eighth grade science program. This is also true for other school systems in this area, in the Chicago area, and I would suspect, across the nation.However, most elementary school teachers have had little science course work and none in astronomy. Middle-school and high-school teachers have better backgrounds for teaching science but little or no astronomy course work. Some of those who teach astronomy are active in local astronomy groups and read Astronomy or Sky and Telescope magazines, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

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