Today’s bit of CPD!

Happy Tuesday! We are pleased to announce our second contributor for #ChatBiologyLive is:

@ChrisGraham.bsky.social from @saps-news.bsky.social ! 🌱

If you want to come chat all things plants you can get your tickets here: buff.ly/3Vudzdv

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We are so excited to announce our first contributor to #ChatBiologyLive ...

@cleapss.bsky.social !! 🧫🔬

If you want to come chat all things micro you can get your tickets here: buff.ly/3Vudzdv

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Deadline is next Monday!

I have only worked in linear, but as a student I actively preferred modular. It gave me more agency in my results and I think that was a good thing.

More focus on what I needed to do backed up by the exam results, rather than now which students are more disagreeable with staff opinion

In a slightly bittersweet situation, due to my promotion, my job has become available for someone new. The school is lovely, the students are lovely and the staff are incredible. Feel free to message if you have any questions or the advert is below: www.teachinherts.com/find-a-job/v...

Tickets are live!
Looking forward to chatting biology face to face next year!
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Hope you have a lovely Christmas break!

If @teachertapp.bsky.social isn’t just a tool for gossip then what is it for??

Really enjoyed this @teachertapp.bsky.social

How I Teach Series: Eyepiece Graticules. Teach them big, apply them small Image found here: Mathematical Biology is always an area that students find difficult. I shared my methods for Statistics here and since then I have been looking more at how I teach other mathemati…

Hello! I learned this from @mrgoodmanbio.bsky.social 's blog. I find it so helpful in understanding the point of calibration and the difference between the micrometer and the graticule.

dissectingtheclassroom.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/h...

Tutor Group Think. TGT. Daily slide to broaden the horizons of tutees, introduce cultural capital and stimulate low states discussion that has no right answers.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink 👇

Hope the interview went well!

Curriculum Sins Right. The time has come. Enough hiding from it. I am here to lay bare the sins of my past. This is not a confessional on a personal level (in so much that the topic is about work as opposed to som…

Don't leave me alone in my confessional. Come share your curriculum sins.
@clairestoneman.bsky.social @ensermark.bsky.social

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To help us all get connected here’s a list of science teachers I’ve found.

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Next year we are hoping to take our awesome #chatbiology community offline for an IRL event! 💚🙌🏻

We would like your input so that we can try to make sure as many of you can come as possible

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Only half an hour to go until tonight's exciting announcement! 👀 ⏰

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Love this!

6 Lamb Brains - Samples for Schools lamb brain for dissection

We get ours here: samples-for-schools.co.uk/product/6-la...

humanbenchmark.com/dashboard this has loads of different cognitive tests. I use a shared spreadsheet to collect reaction times from 10 repeats for each student at GCSE. I then anonymise and have yr 13 number crunch it based on different characteristics

Not to self-diagnose but I sympathise with feeling this…

I can’t say I’ve got lots on neuronal, I’m spending a lot of time with content content content in this module at KS5 - but at GCSE I will get them to use the classic speed question to try and work out the pace of a neuronal message. Then ask why it’s slower than the real value

Welcome to tonight's first #chatbiology question!

What examples and stories 📖 are your go to when introducing the nervous system?

Share and give us all your tips in the comments below!

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Phineas Gage of course! One I stole from the neuroscientist in our faculty

OCR Biology A Level Teacher Network An opportunity to hear about updates, ask questions to subject advisors and share ideas with other teachers.

If you teach graticules with OCR A-Level then I’m running a “How to” guide to my teach them big method. Sign ups are here if you’re interested ow.ly/vuGV50SFPqx @chatbiology.bsky.social @achilleosandri.bsky.social

Oh I expect it to be pants… but if it’s pants anyway then may as well get chilli in your eyes

Usual essential oil on agar - though I want to upgrade this to fresh vegetables. A chilli, lemon juice, fresh thyme, honey etc to use with plant defences

Final question tonight!

What are your best microorganism based projects or experiments? 🦠

#chatbiology

#internationalmicroorganismday

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Next up - how do you break down the tricky concepts of these tiny organisms?

Don't forget to put #chatbiology in your reply!

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