I am committed to using a variety of modalities and instructional techniques in order to convey concepts to my students.
I provide my students with different activities to enhance their learning. Here are two examples of activities
that students did in class. I used these activities while teaching my students about pedigrees during the unit on Inheritance.
The first activity depicts an actual visual representation of a pedigree, or family tree. Having an illustration or
visual representation of a concept is helpful to my students because it allows them to better understand the key elements
of a potentially broad and complicated concept.
The second activity depicts the way I use different fonts to capture a student's attention as he or she reads through
the question. I will also, as is the case with this assignment, put key vocabulary words in bold font in order to alert
students to this word and to help them recognize vocabulary words and to become more familiar with them. The font may
also be altered as a way of providing students with clues to answering the question. I find that this simple technique
of manipulating the font will often enable a student to work more independently and confidently yet not cause them to feel
as if I have made the work too easy or have lowered the standard of learning.
