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Science Facilitation

Submitted by joycetheriot on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 10:22am.
When I graduated with a BS in Biology and Marine Science I left for the Philippines to serve as a Fisheries Peace Corps volunteer. My job was to improve aquaculture methods in order to increase fish production. Six months after arrival I began working in aquaculture because it was first necessary to learn from the natives. I needed to know how to facilitate—not teach. People are not responsive to being told how to do something. Best if you seed the ideas, let it peculate into their brain, form connections until they in the end give birth to it as their own idea. After returning to the States, I conducted research in aquatic biology for 17 years. (The fish did not mind taking commands.) Currently, I am a science facilitator in a high school. I deliver science content using inquiry based methods that I thought I invented in the Philippines- (who knew it was an educational method, I was a scientist!)

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