Brennon Sapp

Write the electron configuration for Sn.

What does ACTG stand for?

What particle orbits the nucleus of an atom?

How many chromosomes do people have?

Job Market Diversity Life Span The Rest of the World Social Security and Retirement The Challenging Nature of Higher

Education The More Challenging Nature of the Job

Market The Nature of Information and Technology

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No Remedial Courses At Least One Remedial Course

4 – Year Colleges4 – Year Colleges 74 %74 %

2 – Year Colleges2 – Year Colleges 55 %55 %

Source: Postsecondary Opportunity

Source: Highlights From TIMSS

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Source: Highlights From TIMSS

Nations' Average Mathematics Performance Compared with the U.S.

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“If you look at India, China, and Russia… even if you discount 90 percent of the people there as

uneducated…you still end up with about 300 million people who are

educated. That’s bigger than the U.S. work force.”

Bob Herbert, New York Times

Nearly 75% of high school graduates enter college, but only 12% of these students will complete a significant college degree. (US Dept. of Ed)

For students who complete high school, only six in 10 will obtain a job

For students who drop out, only three in 10 will obtain a job. (Alliance for Excellence in education)

The twelve fastest growing job markets are technology and/or related to health care.

The fastest declining job markets are secretaries, typist, phone operators, tellers, clerks computer operators, farmers, and ranchers.

Why?

                                                                      

The knowledge explosion sees the world’s knowledge base double every eighteen months, largely through technological development, traditional education functions and forms have been fundamentally challenged.” (Dr. Neville J. Scholfield, University of Newcastle)

Dr. Lawrence Roberts, one of the inventors of the Internet points out, “the Internet doubles every six months”

China produced 2.12 Million college graduates last year-over half are applying for US jobs

2/3 of all science and math workers/teachers will retire in the next five years

By 2010 China will graduate more PhDs in science and engineering than the United States

By 2010 over half the worlds Bio-Tech graduates will live in India

Business and Economy

How did we get information in the past? How do we get it now? How will we get it in the future?

Is it more important to know information or know how to find it?

Is it more important to recall information or be able to use it?

How important is it to educate each and every student?

a. Teach all the standards b. Teach what standards we can fit inc. Teach interesting lessons which hit

standardsd. Teach what we want and don’t worry

about the standardse. Teach what we think we should-

according to the textbook, our gut . . .

Integrated? Biology? Chemistry? Earth Science? Space Science? Physics? Environmental

Science? Scientific

Reasoning? Electives?

State Standards? State Standards? National National

Standards?Standards? ACT?ACT? SAT?SAT? Standardized TestStandardized Test Student InterestStudent Interest Local CurriculumLocal Curriculum Religious Religious

CurriculumCurriculum

Three Required Classes Biology, Chemistry, & Physics Biology, Intro to Chem & Physics, &

Earth/Space Bio-chem, Earth/Space, & Physics Integrated Science I, II, and/or III

Electives May Include: Chemistry Anatomy & Physiology Physics Environmental Science AP Chemistry

AP Biology Astronomy ? ?

Science Curriculum

Three and a Half Credits Required Freshman Year

Scientific Investigations (½ credit) Sophomore–Senior Years

at least one science per year Core Life Science (½ credit) Core Earth/Space Science (½ credit) Core Physical Science (½ credit) Elective Life Science (at least ½ credit) Elective Earth/Space Science (at least ½ credit) Elective Physical Science (at least ½ credit)

Ask the students where there interest lie Ask the teachers where some of their

passions lie Scan the media for the more popular topics

of the day (Forensics) Survey the students Write course descriptions Find teachers willing to participate Give others the old required classes

Electives Chemistry A & B Anatomy A & B Physics A & B Environmental Science Forensics Zoology Astronomy Chemistry & Community Oceanography/Marin Biology

Medical ScienceMedical Science Radio TechnologyRadio Technology HorticultureHorticulture GeologyGeology MeteorologyMeteorology Anatomy for ArtistAnatomy for Artist AP ChemistryAP Chemistry AP BiologyAP Biology

Two years ago Low numbers (we needed to cut a teacher) Students hated science (so did the

teachers) Now

Classes are full (we could hire a teacher) Students really like science We are having to create more classes Teachers are enjoying class