THE FILIPINO BIOLOGY TEACHER

I have been experimenting with moviemakers and video converters the past few weeks. IBASO camped at Scarlet Resort in Bangar and as I checked the image files in my laptop, I saw a number of shots during last year's leadership camp. After a while, I found myself illustrating this year's theme song with last year's picture through a movie. I have downloaded video converter and you tube downloader (for David Cook's song) which made the video above possible.

On September 3, I was invited by our Science Laboratory High School to speak about science investigatory project preparation. I just came from a Leadership Camp so I did not have much time to prepare plus I was struggling with my voice. I noticed these days that when I am being invited to speak about something and was given only few days to prepare, I did not mind making a script anymore but I was speaking my heart, I was speaking from experience and I felt I was making a connection with my listeners. My technique was to empathize as to where my listeners are coming from. For example, in the SIP talk, I made an outline of how would I do it. My purpose was to make SIP preparation a not so very scientific task; to make them believe that simple and ordinary kids can come up with an extraordinary project. Then I would introduce proposal writing, investigation, research report writing and the exhibit/display board. And after that I will end my talk almost they way I began it. Guys, I receiv...

It has been my plan of coming out with a module in biology to make instruction less textual and learner friendly. But my primary problem revolved around the organization of topics. How can I avoid overlaps? How can I set the boundaries, the depth of the content and the level of approach to learners? I hate to admit this, but most of our high school graduates here in the province have shallow grasp of the basic biological concepts. So I researched about the best way of organizing the topics. Good, my friend, Owen Thaddeus Ayuste of PNU-Taft gave me a copy of Mader's Essential Study Partner. I have been using the CD everytime I get confused with some topics in biology. Then, I discovered that the organization of topics in the CD is easy to follow. It was visual (most of the learning styles of my students are VISUAL). So, I bought different textbooks in biology as references and began simplifying the topics by dividing them into lessons. My purpose is to come up with a module that is ...