{"id":18848,"date":"2016-07-04T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=18848"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:11:42","slug":"application-teaching-biochemistry-tangible-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2016\/application-teaching-biochemistry-tangible-way\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s in the application: Teaching biochemistry in a tangible way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How do you keep students awake in an evening course? Sometimes all it takes is a simple combination of a football, camera phone and laser pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Dieni is a contract instructor with Carleton\u2019s Institute of Biochemistry and a research assistant in the <a href=\"http:\/\/kenstoreylab.com\/\">Storey Lab<\/a>. This year, he was honoured with a 2016 Capital Educators&#8217; Award for excellence in teaching, thanks in part to his ability to make his classes engaging and his efforts in mentoring his students.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Dieni\u2019s courses were in the evening, so he says he got creative engaging students to keep them awake. One method involved using slinkies and having students pretend to be atoms. Another used a football to show the technique of fluorescent polarization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized, I literally need to get their blood pumping, I need to make sure they\u2019re physically awake,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>When he taught third and fourth year courses, Dieni says he chose to use textbooks sparingly, focusing rather on primary literature and review articles to demonstrate applications of course material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think at one point you really need to go past that theoretical, abstract textbook context, and show the students what\u2019s in the lab,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Dieni says mentoring students has always developed organically for him, and probably comes from him encouraging in-person interaction with students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that it\u2019s really any kind of development or conscious effort on my part. It\u2019s just really being there for them, being receptive to little shy questions which end up growing over time,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>When teaching, Dieni says he always hopes to bring students from the classroom into real-world applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that a lot of students can attempt to teach themselves. Where a teacher is important is being a guide to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer How do you keep students awake in an evening course? Sometimes all it takes is a simple combination of a football, camera phone and laser pointer. Christopher Dieni is a contract instructor with Carleton\u2019s Institute of Biochemistry and a research assistant in the Storey Lab. 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