COVER STORY
Practicing
Their Passion
SF State-trained science and math teachers pay it forward.
Sequoia High School science teacher Donna Dela Calzada (B.A., ’06), is gleeful about the video of her mother’s polyp-removal surgery. “It’s pretty epic,” she chuckles, swiping through her iPhone to find it. Ms. D., as her students call her, showed the pulsating globules to all five of her Redwood City classes, tailoring the lesson to each group. Her biology students learned about cell mutation, and for her biotech students, she focused on tools and techniques. “They loved it and hated it — all at the same time,” she says.
Provoking emotional responses and using examples from her own life are a couple of Dela Calzada’s techniques for connecting with students — a bag of pedagogical tricks she picked up in SF State’s teacher education program, where she was a fellow at the Center for Science and Math Education (CSME). ...
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