Teaching the youngest anatomists

✍ Scribed by Reidenberg, Joy S.

• Book ID: 101232452
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 134 KB
• Volume: 257
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-276X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0185(19990815)257:4<125::aid-ar4>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

hen your child comes home from elementary school and says ''I told everybody that you could teach us all about bones,'' do you cringe with fear that the next telephone ring will be the teacher requesting a command performance in the classroom?

You ponder the possibility that maybe you could actually do this and even enjoy it, after all you ARE a professional teacher, right? The only problem: you're used to graduate and medical students who already know that a skull isn't just a Halloween prop. You imagine a scenario where you're singing ''the hip bone's connected to the thigh bone, and the thigh bone's connected to the knee bone,'' etc. OK, maybe that's a bit too easy, you think. How about some real bones-after all, they love ''show-and-tell'' in elementary school, right? Then you have a sudden nightmare that your child's classmates will never stop teasing your child for having a character from a grade B horror movie for a parent.