Category: Personal Reflection

Bio Blog #1 - New School Year's Resolution

9/5/2018

It’s a new school year… and a new school for that matter. Now is the perfect time to correct and address your weaknesses as well as build upon your strengths. Please respond to the two parts below.

Both Parts 1 & 2 are expected to be answered in sentence form.

Part 1) In a MINIMUM 5-sentence paragraph, please discuss your plans for the upcoming school year and your desire to get the most out of your year. No student is perfect; each one of us can find room for improvement. You are starting with a clean slate, and I hope you can look back at this year as a success. Discuss your intentions to make this year as successful as possible. Please consider the following:

Study habits
Homework completion
Time management
Extra help
Extra curricular activities
Maturity
Choices

Especially discuss your struggles in previous years (e.g. procrastination, study time, homework completion, etc.) and how you plan to best correct them. Please also discuss your successes in the past and how you hope to replicate them this year. Be as honest as you want to be; the only people who will know who you are are you, Mr. Dubuque, and anyone else you share your Student ID with (I would share this with very few people by the way).

Part 2) My Bio students last year were asked at the end of the year were asked to leave advice for you, my new students. Consider their advice valuable as they had provided it after the highs and lows of an entire year in my class. They know what they did to be successful as well as know what they should have corrected to be more successful. Go HERE to read each of their entries. In the first part of your response to this part, identify:

The 4 most common pieces of advice from last year's Bio students and
The 2 additional pieces of advice in which you find the most value to you.

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Advice from My Bio Students Last Year

6/7/2018

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With their first year of high school almost completed, I asked my students last year to leave advice for you, my students this year. When providing advice, I asked them to consider both their successes as well as their struggles.

They were asked to provide advice regarding any the following:

Study habits
Maturity
Responsibility
Organization
Time management
Participation
Reactions to setbacks
Anything else they felt was relevant

Focusing mostly on their experience in my Biology class, they were asked to give their advice regarding my quizzes/quizlets, homework, class participation, MCAS prep, or anything else that they felt is important and relevant, again, for my class in particular.

Schools is not all about academics. They were also asked to provide advice regarding participation in the school's community outside the academic realm (i.e. extracurriculars, clubs, athletics, etc.)

Since maintaining a healthy social life is also a part of a high school student's experience, my students were also asked to provide appropriate advice regarding such. As well, they may have left advice regarding the high school experience as a whole, even the experience outside of school itself. It is a confusing time for most kids and can be an overwhelming transition from junior high. Please consider the value of their advice.

Many of them put a lot of thought and effort into this. Their advice can be very powerful and should be very much appreciated... I know it is from me.

Click the Bio Blog post heading or click Comments to read their entries.

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