Archive for the 'Environmental health' Category

End of Unit – How did we perform?

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

The single most effective measure of my performance as a teacher lies in the results achieved by my learners in the end of unit submissions.  Did students generally achieve to their potential?  Did students fare better or worse under these conditions?
With this unit, and the definite push towards independent work rate, achievements were scattered.  Some [...]

Leading the students to reasoning and validation.

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Within the current environmental health unit, which I purposely set up  as a practice run for the integrated task next unit, I have developed what I think may be a solid method of ensuring reasoning and validation may be completed by each student effectively.
I have developed a 10 step work plan which outlines all the [...]

Environmental Health concerns and disruption of basic health needs.

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Once the class has gathered evidence on the Wikipedia list of environmental health concerns within the setting of our school, and we have decided which have significance for investigation, I host a discussion on how these concerns might disrupt our basic environmental health needs.  To begin this discussion I will search for a stimulus (on [...]