Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:27 PM

Beyond TAKS and Into Medical or Allied Health Careers-August 25, 2009

Back in February , I received a complement from a student taking Anatomy & Physiology on the college level. She said that My Brother Bones Song was so good that it helped her learn the bones better than the way she had in her lecture class. She commented, "Instructors don't take the time to point to the bones and name them the way you do...it is so much fun to listen and sing the "Brother Bones" Song with you. My friend went out of my house singing "Who Is Brother Bones" and the neighbors shouted "Who taught you that song?" I thought, "That is so cool! Mr. B is a Songwriter-Entertainer and not just a Science Teacher!" Today, another ex-student of mine in North Texas uttered the same commment.  He is studying Radiology and of course went to my lecture on the Skeletal System dealing with Brother Bones.  This is where we need to keep the instruction and not get so hi-strung with TAKS.  If you are teaching the TEKS, you will cover TAKS and go beyond and get your kids excited about joining the medical field and other Allied Health Fields.  Play my song "Tough It" over and over and get them to sing it so that will stay with them and sooner or later they will start thinking and believing that they can become Doctors or join the Medical Health Field.

To keep them excited and organized make them keep a journal and make them put all of their notes and assignments in their journals.  You keep the journals other than when Major Tests come around.  This way you force them to stay organized.  More to come and have a Great Day!