Models for teaching biology

I dream of a community of biology teachers who draw and explore models with students. Unlike many slide decks, the models I share aren’t the lesson itself. They aren’t to be presented or delivered, but co-constructed in conversing, step by step; a teaching method I explain in my books, Difference Maker and Teaching Meaning.

Through sharing our best models and teaching moves:

• We become better teachers: combining the best of professional coordination and teaching autonomy.
• We have a lighter workload by avoiding laborious resource creation; our planning time involves making sense of models and checking subject knowledge.
• Our students learn more by reaping the benefits of teaching without PowerPoint slides and developing understanding beyond knowledge.