My Students

In my Biology class I focus on hands-on, inquisitive learning. My students best know me for the infectious enthusiasm and love of science I bring to the classroom. I love every moment of teaching, and strive each day to provide my students with the best understanding of science I can provide.

My students live in and around inner-city Los Angeles.

Our school, part of Alliance Charter Schools, has a strict standard of high level academia and hires only the best teachers to provide students every opportunity at a great education. We put a major emphasis on collaboration among staff, developing meaningful project-based learning objectives, and building our student's critical thinking skills through inquiry. While our students come from a wide variety of backgrounds, they are focused, dedicated, and college bound.

My Project

Dissection is an integral part of understanding Biology and developing a love of science. By exploring specimens students get exposure to college level, hands-on learning processes. For each specimen students will build skills at responsible handling, cutting, cleaning as well as identifying and memorizing key anatomical structures. Specifics of specimen use: 1. Hearts - Students will dissect hearts during our circulatory system unit. They will identify major arteries and veins, predict pathways from heart to body, and explore left and right ventricle and atria. 2. Frogs - Students will identify key anatomical structures of the frog including fat bodies, heart, liver, kidneys, large/small intestine, bladder, cloaca, etc. 3. Worm - Students will explore aortic arches, gizzard/crop, intestine, etc. 4. Crayfish - Students will explore crustacean anatomy. Other specimens will be handled similarly, identifying and memorizing key anatomy.

Dissection should be something that every student is exposed to at some point in their studies.

The amount of pure inquisitive learning to be had by exploring the insides of a once living organism is profound. Dissections helps pave the way to a number of future careers, especially in medicine.