I find a problem in teaching biology, especially since students begin to memorize information without concentrating just in order to get a good grade on the exam. Trying to use new and exciting teaching methods causes great fatigue because I am constrained for time and required to teach every word in the book.
Improving student performance in biology can be approached through various strategies and skills. Here are some suggestions:
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By combining these strategies, skills, and resources, you can create an engaging and effective learning environment that helps students excel in biology.
Blooms taxonomy comes to mind as a way to get students away from just learning facts (first category: remembering). Design tasks in which the facts had to be understood. I'm thinking of why questions. In the second category of bloom (understanding) is vocabulary like: classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, recognize, report, select, translate or paraphrase. Next would be "applying": choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate...
Here ist a method I have been using since 2012 with high school students of physics. This method was, for example, praised by zoologist Richard Dawkins in memory of one of his teachers at University.
Let your students write short essays (200 to 400 words is fine) on a narrowly defined topics. Give them a few technical terms you expect them to use. Ask them to produce arguments for and against certain propositions. This will encourage them to think about more fundamental principles. For example: "Give evidence for and against group selection. Draw a personal conclusion".
It usually takes me about 5 to 10 minutes to read each essay. I do not fully correct it but only indicate where students lack depth or make false statements, aksing them to correct them.
After a few such tasks, I definitely observe a strong increase in the students' proficiency to produce meaningful and coherent texts. This is definetely one step beyond mere rote learning. It's worth a try.
من افضل الطرق لمواد العلوم هي التعلم التعاوني و التعلم القائم على التجارب و الاستكشافات ايضا استخدام الواقع المعزز و حديثا استخدام برامج الذكاء الاصطناعي في تنفيذ التجارب و الشرح و التطبيق وهناك مواقع للعلوم مثل المختبرات الافتراضية اذن هناك العديد من الطرق التي يمكن البحث و الدراسة فيها
It is very important to find ways that student learn for themselves and understand their strengths and also teaching strategies you are using. For example, in the topic of Genetics it is interesting to use playing with small cards to show bases when it comes to see nitrogenous bases and base pairing, frameshift, and different kinds of mutation missense and nonsense mutation even DNA replication etc. Many concepts can be taught using this game.
Moreover, use real life stories that relates to their environment and drill them with many exercises on concepts that you find it is hard to be understood.
Sometimes some research stated that mismatch of teaching styles and learning styles of students might affect their academic performance. We should try to refrain from writing too many notes on board and giving too many handouts. You need to summarize your notes to help them.
Thank you
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