The Life Science Teaching Resource Community

Have you heard that the American Physiological Society (APS) has expanded their Archive of Teaching Resources into The Life Science Teaching Resource Community?This new online community—LifeSciTRC for short—offers thousands of FREE resources that you can use in your A&P course!This transition marks a culmination of efforts of APS and several other scientific societies to advance the Archive of Teaching Resources beyond an online library into a community of practice for life science educators at the K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels.The LifeSciTRC offers more than 6,000 free, scientifically-accurate teaching resources along with many new tools that allow educators to share their ideas and teaching expertise including:Community pages with news and recommended teaching resourcesBlogs focusing on classroom and science topics relevant to educatorsForums for educator-led discussionsResource rating and commenting areas where educators can share their experiences of using resourcesMonthly newsletters highlighting community members, news, and resourcesI can't speak highly enough of the quality and diversity of teaching resources available in the archive.  These are peer-reviewed submissions from all levels of teaching and learning.  Case studies, experiments, demonstrations, slide presentations—all kinds of great stuff!The new system is really easy (and fun) to use.  It has a starred rating system, so you can see how others have rated each...
Source: The A and P Professor - Category: Physiology Authors: Source Type: blogs