Welcome to Biology Education Review!

This newsletter is intended to encourage communication and the sharing of ideas between college biology teachers who adhere to the following principles:

That students need to understand scientific ways of thinking, the role of science in society, and the nature of scientific knowledge, in addition to fundamental concepts in biology

That students need to have opportunities to make connections between what they already know, what they are learning, and issues that are important to them


That students need to be actively engaged in their own learning, including asking their own questions, constructing their own explanations, and communicating their ideas to others

That teachers need to think critically about their teaching, treating it as an area of inquiry in which empirical evidence, sound theory, and frequent collaboration are just as important as in their disciplinary research.