Psych Students Slice in to Collaborative Lesson

December 15, 2020

Kathryn Fetterly observes as Colin Downes '22 dissects a sheep brain.

When Science teacher Ann Marie Froehle heard that Kathryn Fetterly's College Prep Psychology students were studying the brain, she immediately knew she could help.

Froehle had real sheep brains available, and offered to guide the Psychology students in dissecting them, so they could connect what they were learning in class to the real-life brain. 

The A-L students and M-Z students will both have an opportunity to dissect, with the full-time distance learners attending the second session via Zoom. On their day at home, students completed an asynchronous lesson on "How the Pandemic is Changing the Brain."

Working in groups of three to four, students had the chance to dissect the brain piece by piece, discussing what each part does and connecting it to what they have been learning in their Psychology class. 
 
"Collaborating with other teachers is a wonderful way to demonstrate to the students that learning is an integrated endeavor," Fetterly said. "No subject is isolated, but builds and deflects off each other. History and literature are often complementary, the social sciences and hard sciences often overlap, math and science certainly overlap and the arts are present in every subject. Watching a master teacher teach invigorates and refreshes your own teaching style. I believe it is vital that we as teachers learn from each other and collaborate for the sake of the students and for ourselves."
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Tags: STEM, Academics, STEM, Science, Psychology, Hybrid School

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