Christian Moore-Anderson has been teaching biology for over a decade and has also taught English as a foreign language in Chile, Colombia, and Spain. For a decade he has taught mixed-attainment classes while using his free time for thinking deeply about biology education. Alongside creating this popular blog ‘Teaching Biology’, he has been awarded an MA Education with distinction and has published papers in academic journals, such as the Journal of Biological Education. Christian is always pleased to hear from readers as he enjoys discussing biology education, whether in English or Spanish. He continues to be a full-time secondary school classroom teacher to this day.

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Qualifications

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• MA Education (Distinction): University of Bath (2020)

• PGCE (1) & QTS: University of Manchester (2012)

• Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera C2: Instituto Cervantes (2011)

• BSc Microbiology (2.1): University of Leeds (2007)

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Publications

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Biology Made Real (book):

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—English edition—Biology Made Real: Ways of Teaching that Inspire Meaning-Making (2023) Independent Publishing

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—Edición española—Biología Hecha Realidad: Formas de Enseñar que Inspiran la Construcción de Significado (2023) Independent Publishing

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Measuring and fostering biological thinking beyond short-answer questions. (2022). School Science Review

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Putting nature back into secondary biology education: a framework for integration. (2021). Journal of Biological Education.

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Designing a curriculum for the networked knowledge facet of systems thinking in secondary biology courses: a pragmatic framework. (2021). Journal of Biological Education.