The early leaders of PKAL took much time defining, based on their experiences, the basic characteristics of strong undergraduate programs in mathematics and science what works. Reflect on your education from grade school to grad school and describe one memorable learning experience. The common feature in all my memorable learning experiences was experiencing the passion an instructor had for the material, and having that release my own excitement. Yes, it taught me to always tap into my enthusiasm for biology to inspire my own teaching. In the various full semester and short courses I have taught and organized, I have always included teaching colleagues who also taught from personal inspiration.
Scientists approach a problem by asking questions.
Again, tap into their own excitement that brought them into science in the first place and have that fuel their presentations and guidance of active student discussion. We have to step out of our own everyday lives sometimes too to be good teachers. The kaleidoscopic metaphor means, on one level, that everything is connected, that as effective new programs, policies and practices are introduced in one arena, it affects the whole system. In particular, Neuroscience is exploding as an interdisciplinary subject of study. The connections are even extending to such areas as engineering and business.