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Selected Works of Donald Dosch, Ph.D.

Past Science Faculty / SIR Management Team

Dr. Don Dosch has been an IMSA Biology teacher for the past 25 years and currently serves as the Curriculum and Assessment Leader for the Science Team. He received his doctorate in Microbiology from the University of Chicago. He has held a National Board Certificate since 1999. Don teaches in the IMSA EXCEL Program, a bridge program for Culturally, Linguistically and Economically Diverse Students (CLED) students coming to IMSA as sophomores. In all of his teaching, Don works with students to help them grow in their critical-thinking and problem-solving abilities.

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About Donald Dosch, Ph.D.

Dr. Don Dosch has been an IMSA Biology teacher for the past 25 years and currently serves as the Curriculum and Assessment Leader for the Science Team. He received his doctorate in Microbiology from the University of Chicago. He has held a National Board Certificate since 1999. Don teaches in the IMSA EXCEL Program, a bridge program for Culturally, Linguistically and Economically Diverse Students (CLED) students coming to IMSA as sophomores. In all of his teaching, Don works with students to help them grow in their critical-thinking and problem-solving abilities.

2018 - Present	SIR Management Team, Illinois Math and Science Academy ‐ Student Inquiry and Research (SIR)
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Present	Science Faculty, Illinois Math and Science Academy ‐ Biology
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Biology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology and Infectious Disease

Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases

2018 - 2019	"Green Ambassador Program"
	ComEd
	ComEd Seed Fund FY19
	Colleague(s): Trisha Sudhakar '19

The Principal’s Teaching Award

Scientific Inquiries - Biology
Microbes and Disease
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Independent Study in Biology

Teacher Resources for: Advanced Biological Systems (ABS)

Articles (2)

Biotechnology: A Necessity for Science Literacy. (Judith A. Scheppler, Susan Styer and Donald Dosch) Faculty Publications & Research (2006)

A hands-on semester-long course in biotechnology for middle school students, high school students, or college students provides a way to learn about new technologies and can be coupled with assignments that provoke their thinking about ...

Reconnecting the Sciences (John Eggebrecht, Raymond Dagenais, Don Dosch, et al.) Educational Leadership (1996)

During the last three years at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, we have been working on a partial reconstruction of Whitehead's "one subject matter," a course reconnecting biology, chemistry, earth and space sciences, and ...

Student Inquiry and Research: Developing Students' Authentic Inquiry Skills (Judith A. Scheppler, Susan Styer, Don Dosch, et al.) Faculty Publications & Research (2009)

Established by the state of Illinois in 1985 to develop talent and leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) has become an internationally recognized educational learning laboratory ...

Science Inquiry at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (Judith A. Scheppler, Donald Dosch, Susan Styer, et al.) Faculty Publications & Research (2005)

Located in Aurora, Illinois, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) is an internationally recognized, pioneering educational institution created by the State to develop talent and stimulate excellence in teaching and learning in mathematics, science, ...

Environmental Impact- Using Digital Media to Focus Student Learning (Crystal Randall, Sowmya Anjur and Donald Dosch) Faculty Publications & Research (2018)

Environmental issues are global challenges that our students will have to address in their future. Addressing these issues through curriculum helps bring purpose to students’ learning. We have developed a capstone project in our introductory ...

Engaging Students in Fundamental Biological Concepts Through UN Sustainability Goals (Sowmya Anjur and Donald Dosch) Faculty Publications & Research (2018)

Advanced Biological Systems is year-long introductory biology course for Juniors at IMSA. It is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development goals, the use of which has been identified as an initiative for curriculum development. ...

Addressing Misconceptions about Evolution (Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll and Don Dosch) Faculty Publications & Research (2015)

"Leave with effective ways to identify and address misconceptions about evolution, with a particular focus on supporting explanations with evidence."

Session 3e: Teaching Using UN Sustainable Development Goals (Donald Dosch, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll and Crystal Randall) Professional Learning Day (2018)

This session will focus on how we are using the UN Sustainable Development Goals as guideposts for curriculum development in several of our different science classes. Students will join us to present some of their ...

Session B-1: Current Events in Biology (Crystal Randall, Don Dosch and Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll) Professional Learning Day (2017)

Teaching fundamentals, while important, can sometimes take a toll on our motivation and enthusiasm for our subject because there are rarely significant changes in the content we might present from year to year. However, keeping ...

Session C-1: Ecosystem Disruption: Using lab and real-world examples to bring changes in Earth’s ecosystems to life (Crystal Randall, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll, Sowmya Anjur, et al.) Professional Learning Day (2016)

The magnitude of the changes occurring in Earth’s ecosystems seems difficult to tackle in the classroom and lab. Here we explore ways to demonstrate the changes in the Earth’s water and carbon cycles in the ...

Session C-3: Epidemiology (Don Dosch and Crystal Randall) Professional Learning Day (2015)

Epidemiology, the study of factors influencing the spread of communicable disease, has become a broadly discussed topic given the recent Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa. Participants in this session will work in the lab ...

Session D-5: Write to Learn Science (Donald Dosch, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll and Jeong Choe) Professional Learning Day (2014)

Are you tired of grading the same old lab report time and time again? Why not shake things up a bit? This session will help teachers with ideas for alternatives to the traditional lab report, ...

Session D:5: Visual Assessments in Biology (Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll, Megan Schrementi and Don Dosch) Professional Learning Day (2013)

Most of us think of crayons and drawing paper as classroom tools for only the youngest of students, but we have found that incorporating assessments that require students to create visual representations of their understanding ...

Session B-1: Breaking News! Current Events in Biology (Sarah O'Leary Driscoll, Megan Schrementi and Don Dosch) Professional Learning Day (2012)

Relating the subject of biology to the advancements, discoveries, and interesting happenings out in the “real world” will help keep students excited and motivated in the classroom. In this presentation, we will discuss some current ...

Session E-7: Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (Megan Schrementi and Don Dosch) Professional Learning Day (2011)

Recently, diseases considered obsolete (measles, whooping cough) have begun to re-emerge, bringing attention to the importance of vaccines and the danger of infectious agents. Our discussion will include enriching a biology curriculum using information including ...

Session C-6: The Storytelling of Molecular Cell Biology (Sarah O'Leary and Donald Dosch) Professional Learning Day (2011)

Learning molecular biology is sometimes like reading a page out of a book and hoping to understand the plot. This lab-based offering will focus on specific ways that we help students see how the smaller ...

Session C-5: Using Sordaria to Understand Meiosis (Don Dosch and Susan Styer) Professional Learning Day (2010)

Using this simple organism, students can perform a genetic mapping experiment to determine the location of a spore pigment gene relative to the centromere. A deeper examination of the same data will reveal the mechanism ...

Evolution - #0: Advanced Biological Systems (Jessica Amacher, Sowmya Anjur, Donald Dosch, et al.) Unit 1: Evolution (2019)

The first unit of Advanced Biological Systems is focused on the theory of evolution, the mechanisms of evolutionary change, and discussions of the biological species concept. We discuss briefly how biodiversity stabilizes ecosystems. A study ...

Evolution - #1: History of Life (Jessica Amacher, Sowmya Anjur, Donald Dosch, et al.) Unit 1: Evolution (2019)

From the perspective of a biologist, the history of life on the Earth is a recurring story. Although details may be different, what happens today has precedence in the occurrences of the past. Two underlying ...

Evolution - #2: Evolutionary Evidence and Inferences (Jessica Amacher, Sowmya Anjur, Donald Dosch, et al.) Unit 1: Evolution (2019)

The theory of evolution articulates elegantly a series of inferences from a vast collection of observations and evidence. We present some of those evidences here to stimulate in our students the sorts of scientific reasoning ...

Evolution - #3: Evolution on the Web (Jessica Amacher, Sowmya Anjur, Donald Dosch, et al.) Unit 1: Evolution (2019)

This lesson is a companion piece the previous one: Evolutionary Evidences and Inferences. It is completed supported by readings at an online site hosted by The University of California at Berkeley. The site is linked ...

Evolution - #4: Genetic drift and Founder effect (Jessica Amacher, Sowmya Anjur, Donald Dosch, et al.) Unit 1: Evolution (2019)

Genetic drift is a term used to describe chance fluctuations in the allelic frequencies in a population over time. The effects of genetic drift tend to be very minor in large populations, but they can ...

Evolution - #5: Globin Gene Evolution (Jessica Amacher, Sowmya Anjur, Donald Dosch, et al.) Unit 1: Evolution (2019)

For this lesson, students are guided through the steps necessary to compare nucleotide and amino acid sequences available at the National Center for Biotechnology Information that is maintained by the National Institutes of Health. The ...

Evolution - #6: Selection simulation (Jessica Amacher, Sowmya Anjur, Donald Dosch, et al.) Unit 1: Evolution (2019)

A modern understanding of the theory of evolution revolves around the selection of certain types within a population that over long time periods eventually leads to change of the species. This descent with modification is ...

Evolution - #7: Speciation Jigsaw (Jessica Amacher, Sowmya Anjur, Donald Dosch, et al.) Unit 1: Evolution (2019)

This is a lesson intended to be complementary to the selection simulation. Whereas the simulation was used to develop a conceptual understanding of selection, the readings done here are used to allow students to see ...