Post by EnCorps - STEM Teachers

"How a Neurobiologist and a Biotech Manager Turned Their Passion for Science Into Teaching"💡 Step into Antioch High School's senior biotech class, and you will see experiments that use DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction and gel electrophoresis. At a high-needs school where over 70% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, this is not your typical high school lab equipment or techniques. Not your typical low-income high school lab equipment. But that’s par for the course when your high school biology teacher has a PhD in neuroscience and over a decade of lab experience. With a background in corporate research and product development, EnCorps STEM Teaching Fellow Don Selway (https://bit.ly/2I6C8XT) found that teaching met his desire to give back. Don teaches biology at SOUL Charter School in San Diego, where his students engage in experiential and project-based learning. He knows that interdisciplinary skills like collaboration and teamwork are priorities for advancing a scientific career. Read more about two STEM Teaching Fellows that made the transition to teaching on Biospace! https://bit.ly/2TfSx2A