Peggy has started her student teaching at Oroville Highschool. She is currently working with Juniors and Seniors in Anatomy (the dream class!), Freshmen in Earth Science (very challenging), and Sophomores in General Biology (spunky and smart). The character with the blonde wig is the master teacher, Rich Hogan. He's really tall, about 6'5'', less than 300 lbs, and he reminds everyone of Shrek. Even the kids give him a bad time. The blurry fellow rocking out is Brent McGie, he's retiring at the end of this year. He has all the Honors Biology classes and has been teaching for years and years. Friday was Spirit week at school and at the rally the teachers did a spoof of "The Wall" by Pink Floyd. We thought it was really funny, but I don't think the kids got it...
Last weekend, Jan. 23-25, Peggy, Samantha, Tracy, Chad and Dr. Fischer went to Ontario, CA and participated in the Western Robert Noyce Scholar Symposium. We are the chosen scholars from CSUChico for the year 2008-09. Each of us earned $10,000 and some other perks to help us become the best teachers in CA....For three days the five of us were taken really good care of in a smancy, dancy hotel, good food and lots and lots of speakers from all over. The majority of scholars were from CA, but we got to meet and talk to students from Arizona and Colorado as well. It was fun finding out that in other states they are suffering from the same problems CA has with a diverse population of students and their needs. Some key speakers that were impressive were a scientist from NASA that helped to create and design the robots that are on Mars right now, and a professor from CSUSantaBarbara that specializes in Anatomy and Invertebrate Physiology. In his spare time he works with artists and computer guys to make movies like Night at the Museum, Ratatouii (however you spell it) and he helped design the new 300 foot Yeti at Disneyland. I'm not sure why they invited this guy to talk to us because we want to become teachers and his job looked pretty fun!! Using his knowledge of anatomy, he feeds data into a computer about bone length, hip and joint measurements of all kinds of animals and the computer compiles all the data to create an exact skeleton replica of rats, dogs, people and from there the artists fill in the rest and the characters will move and walk with fluid movements exactly how the real animal would walk. Being a biologist can be cool!!
Peggy has started her student teaching at Oroville Highschool. She is currently working with Juniors and Seniors in Anatomy (the dream class!), Freshmen in Earth Science (very challenging), and Sophomores in General Biology (spunky and smart). The character with the blonde wig is the master teacher, Rich Hogan. He's really tall, about 6'5'', less than 300 lbs, and he reminds everyone of Shrek. Even the kids give him a bad time. The blurry fellow rocking out is Brent McGie, he's retiring at the end of this year. He has all the Honors Biology classes and has been teaching for years and years. Friday was Spirit week at school and at the rally the teachers did a spoof of "The Wall" by Pink Floyd. We thought it was really funny, but I don't think the kids got it...
Last weekend, Jan. 23-25, Peggy, Samantha, Tracy, Chad and Dr. Fischer went to Ontario, CA and participated in the Western Robert Noyce Scholar Symposium. We are the chosen scholars from CSUChico for the year 2008-09. Each of us earned $10,000 and some other perks to help us become the best teachers in CA....For three days the five of us were taken really good care of in a smancy, dancy hotel, good food and lots and lots of speakers from all over. The majority of scholars were from CA, but we got to meet and talk to students from Arizona and Colorado as well. It was fun finding out that in other states they are suffering from the same problems CA has with a diverse population of students and their needs. Some key speakers that were impressive were a scientist from NASA that helped to create and design the robots that are on Mars right now, and a professor from CSUSantaBarbara that specializes in Anatomy and Invertebrate Physiology. In his spare time he works with artists and computer guys to make movies like Night at the Museum, Ratatouii (however you spell it) and he helped design the new 300 foot Yeti at Disneyland. I'm not sure why they invited this guy to talk to us because we want to become teachers and his job looked pretty fun!! Using his knowledge of anatomy, he feeds data into a computer about bone length, hip and joint measurements of all kinds of animals and the computer compiles all the data to create an exact skeleton replica of rats, dogs, people and from there the artists fill in the rest and the characters will move and walk with fluid movements exactly how the real animal would walk. Being a biologist can be cool!!
