About Your Instructor
Education
Mr. Darren Dressen, M.S.
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Grew up in Minnesota, Mounds View High School
Brief minor league baseball career with KC Royals
B.S. in chemistry from small, liberal arts college in MN, St. John’s University
Worked as a chef
M.S. in chemistry from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
Graduate work at North Dakota State University
Medicinal chemist for 16 years at Elan Pharmaceuticals (Over 40 patents
and papers on Alzheimer’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis)
• Teaching credential from Cal State East Bay
• Student taught at James Logan High School last year
• Working on my M.S. degree in Education at CSUEB presently
About You Instructor
Personal
Mr. Darren Dressen
• 3 children (Hunter (17) autistic in special education, Severine (19) studying
nursing in Germany, Theresa (21) studying nutrition at UC Davis.
• Wife (Caroline) is 5th grade teacher (Fremont) and professor of multimedia
design at Ohlone Community College.
• Spend a lot of time in Germany and France because my wife is citizen of
those two countries.
• Still play competitive baseball
• Like to garden and cook the stuff I grow
• Play Black Ops way too much
About This Course
5% Participation
15% Homework/Classwork
15% Quizzes
25% Labs/Projects
40% Tests
Homework is for you … to do well on tests …. to understand
Classwork becomes homework
About This Course
Semester Final 20% ….
Uugh!
About This Course: Supplies
Pencils (Chemistry is a pencil science)
Pens (Blue or Black ink)
Organized Binder (CIS has suggested sections)
Textbook (We have a class set yeah!!!)
Non-graphing scientific calculator
Procedures
When you come into class …
-Pick up handouts
-Get out your notes and writing implements
-Start warm-up as soon as class starts
-If you are tardy … sign into tardy log.
Procedures
If you missed class the day(s) before …
1) Check out class website for what you missed
2) Ask a friend for notes
3) Go to weekly agenda clipboard
4) Get handouts from little portable file
5) ….. Then ask Mr. Dressen
Procedures
Bathroom …
-Sign Up On Back Board
-Every minute you are gone you owe me
3 minutes at lunch (Room 210)*
*Some people can’t do lunch so we will discuss when a better time is available
A Typical Day (Not Lab Day)
-Warm Up (1/2 sheet of paper)
-Agenda for the Day
-If Homework is Due (We will go over few problems
before handing in or homework check)
-Class instruction will end with 5-7 min. to go
-At that time you will be asked some reflection
?’s on the day (same 1/2 sheet of paper as the warmup, on back)
-When bell rings … you will hand your ½ sheet of
paper into me as an exit slip (participation grade)