Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

[falconer66a]

Here, I just recall what I taught.

falconer, another outstanding piece of explaining this disease. We are so glad and blessed that you found this MB.
By chance, do you have a photographic memory?

Not at all. But with great study I do know cellular biology, and have a facility in explaining it to lay audiences.

Presently, I'm utilizing my other area of biology expertise (not relevant here) to conduct a funded field biology research project of a university research foundation I'm now associated with. It's a really great project, and like Anavex science, utilizes and applies new, innovative methods, which I devised, to solve a major environmental problem. Results will appear in three or four years, where our unique ecological "mechanisms of action" will yield profound environmental improvements. I'll feature that story in the book I'll be writing about the project. In a few years.

But I have 30 years of experience explaining biology to students in my classrooms. For 17 years I taught middle school science to 7th and 8th graders. That's a tough assignment; but rewarding as so many of my kids went on to educational excellence in their high school years.

Then, in my last 13 years in education I was transferred to the high school in my district, to teach both college preparatory and advanced placement biology. My school district had a good number of families and students striving for educational achievement, so as to gain entrance (and scholarships) to top-line colleges.

Consequently, I had to both know the detailed biology topics that colleges wanted their talented freshmen to know upon acceptance, and even more importantly, to effectively teach it to these smart, motivated students. They had (many of them) hovering parents who monitored every step in their kids' education. That's how I got moved to the high school. Some influential parents went to the superintendent to have Mr. Falconer (sic) transferred to the high school.

There, I established a number of innovative programs, beyond the intense teaching I offered. I put my most talented and motivated kids in a student research program I created, where they went out into local laboratories, industries, and state environmental agencies and conducted authentic research. Most of those kids then earned substantial college scholarships. I'm still in touch with many of them, now PhDs, MDs. etc.

They all said that their entry-level college biology courses were a breeze. "Same stuff Mr. Falconer taught us. Easy as pi." (The Greek letter.) They got A's, impressed their professors; and went on to ever greater educational accomplishments.

But, I had to know what I was teaching. Sort of like here. Complexes of complicated, interrelated biological and chemical processes. Not easy to quickly comprehend; and even harder to teach, to make things clear and understandable. I worked diligently to do that; got numerous professional awards for the achievements of my students; both those heading into a science career, but also for the useful biology education my non-science kids absorbed.

I also do a good deal of technical writing, aimed at lay audiences. I present numerous digital programs on various biology topics.

Simply, I greatly enjoy conveying to interested audiences (such as those here) understandings of otherwise complex biological topics. I'm a bit practiced, and reasonably accomplished in the matter. Thank you for your inquiry