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JOHN LOFTIN
NSF Teaching Partner
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School: Century High School Pocatello School District # 25 Years Teaching: 16 years in Public schools Degree: BS and Masters in Biology ASU Boone N.C., Ed certification ISU Pocatello Id. Graduate Partner: n/a Special Accomplishments/Interests: A few awards for teaching. How will you continue to integrate an aspect of GK-12 and your partnership with graduate students into your teaching, philosophy, etc.? I will continue to use the labs we have developed and I will continue to try original research with my advanced classes. We have created a large notebook full of labs we tried and some we did not try this year due to time restrictions. One of the most important things I will try to continue is the ISU undergraduate research symposium. Our students have done work researching Nepenthes sp. and the mechanisms of digestion. The students are creating a poster and have been accepted to present, the students are really excited and we are very proud of their efforts. This will be the second time my students have entered and hopefully the second time they win. Another exercise I plan to push is our environmental awareness projects. Students learned about our responsibilities to Earth and how we have negatively impacted Earth, students have also learned how to change our footprint and become better stewards of the Earth's resources. Students even started a letter writing campaign to our local government to start so local actions.
I hope the connections I have made through my fellow to other scientist will continue and these connections
will become collaborators on future labs.
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