Reteaching a unit?? Help!

[Pieces of Arzt]

One of the classes I teach is freshman level biology. I just graded the most recent test over basic biochemistry, and WOW, did the students bomb it. I've never had scores so poor across the board. I don't feel like I taught the unit drastically differently than usual, and my students actually seem much brighter this year, in general.

I've always offered the opportunity for test corrections before/after school, tutored individual kids who obviously needed extra help with the unit before/after school, etc, but I am at a loss right now.

What should I do about this? How can I go back quickly and efficiently to cover the ideas they missed? We are on a very strict timeframe in our district and are under a lot of pressure to conform to the scope and sequence.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks!

[Helix]

One of the classes I teach is freshman level biology. I just graded the most recent test over basic biochemistry, and WOW, did the students bomb it. I've never had scores so poor across the board. I don't feel like I taught the unit drastically differently than usual, and my students actually seem much brighter this year, in general.

I've always offered the opportunity for test corrections before/after school, tutored individual kids who obviously needed extra help with the unit before/after school, etc, but I am at a loss right now.

What should I do about this? How can I go back quickly and efficiently to cover the ideas they missed? We are on a very strict timeframe in our district and are under a lot of pressure to conform to the scope and sequence.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks!

Same here! Are we in some sort of weird dimension together? lol
I had to go into my second grading trimester, so if you're not in that bind, I would suggest giving them a project to reinforce the concepts. Have them monitor their foods for several days, a food diary. Have them record the lipids, carbs, proteins. Then, have them summarize the importance of each in biological terms. I think the problem is these kids haven't had a chemistry background yet, and here comes the curriculum throwing them a backshot from biology into chem!