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An Interview With Gry Dahle, MD

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Yale School of Medicine: Dr. Lisa Sanders is a clinician educator in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program. In addition to her work as a physician and teacher, she writes the popular Diagnosis column for the New York Times Magazine and the Think Like a Doctor column featured in the New York Times blog, The Well. Her column was the inspiration for the Fox program House MD (2004-2012) and she served as a consultant to the show. In 2010 published a book titled Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis. Currently she is collaborating with the New York Times on an 8 hour documentary series on the process of diagnosis. It will air on Netflix in the summer of 2019. 

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Amazon Wish List:  Books to Inspire Young Scientists and Engineers

Learning is an ongoing process. To truly learn, one must have the opportunity to make choices and mistakes. I had the opportunity to see  former Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Yale University, Ainissa Ramirez, Ph.D. at the California Science Teachers Conference in Sacramento, 2015, where she spoke on the need to “build a relationship with failure” which rang true to me as a science educator.

Dr. Ramirez states: “We need to give our children more opportunities to build a relationship with failure. In my estimation, science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education is a key way to do it. In STEM, failure is a fact of life. Experiments don't work out, the data doesn't look right, or someone knocks over your experiment. There are plenty of places to learn persistence and resilience. We can also learn how failure is instructive to the design and innovation process. Science and innovation are based on trial-and-error (which is just a glorified way to say "fail a lot").” 

I believe science classroom experiences provide students with a supportive and nurturing environment in which to fail and through guidance and support grow, building lifelong skills of perseverance in times of challenge and adversity. Students, particularly at the junior high school level, are at a crossroads for learning. A teacher has the ability to either engage or disengage a student from the educational system. I believe students are worthy of the opportunity for personal choice in their education and life while acknowledging that they are still youthful enough to need careful guidance.

Through careful analysis of the science standards and frameworks, my goal is to cultivate in my classroom a strong foundation of knowledge, appropriate forums to relate students’ knowledge to their surroundings and their ability to make educated choices for the future. Those abilities will enable my students to be adaptive to an ever-changing society while also strengthening their ability to affect changes as well.

Until completed, all absent work will show as a ZERO in the PowerSchool. All work from absences must be made up. Check the website or box for missing handouts; complete presentation notes using the website links.  Lab makeups can be completed at lunch or break with a friend who's completed the lab. All work from absences will receive full credit if completed within one week of absence. 

Focus: Fingerprint Case Studies

• Famous Cases: Fingerprints lead to conviction
  Tweet It Out Project

Fingerprint Resources:

Focus: Impression Evidence - Fingerprints- Ridges and Points of Similarity; Latents

 Learning Target: 

 

• STEM/Science Dedicated    3 -Ring Binder (1.0" min) 
• Pens: Blue or Black, Red, Highlighter
• Pencil- Mechanical recommended
• Curious and Open Mind

• Think critically and creatively to identify problems and create solutions
• Collect, record and scientifically evaluate data
• Draw logical conclusions based on the evidence
• Apply engineering principles to program and create inventions
• Be keen observers of surroundings capable of making detailed accounts 
• Communicate the results of the work