Mr. Tranter (center) enjoys the rewards biology offers
Education Through Athletics
Relevance - To my Vincent Massey SNC2D and SBI3U students: I admire anyone with a plan to become their personal best, in the pursuit of excellence. I believe you can't give your best to others if you do not take the time to pursue excellence yourself. This of course is an ongoing task that if you can come to accept it, requires devotion far beyond your post-secondary years. Complacency seems to be encouraged with familial social pressures, media influence, and technology. Inactivity, diabetes, heart disease and obesity result from this unfortunate dichotomy. Biology can aid your life to become a dual professional: a path to a great career & your user's manual for a healthy body.
Mission - To educate how we can manipulate our metabolism based on what/how/when we eat and what/how/when we exercise. To understand complex biology and appreciate the physiological mechanisms that operate to make us healthy.
Experience - My passions encompass sport, education, and travel. I have been fortunate to have worked internationally for 1.5 years in both Queensland, Australia and Seoul, Korea. This time away helped to nuture a strong affinity for research, learning health and competition.
After a dozen years triathlon experience, 4 years quadrathlon and 2 years of varsity sport, I have had the fortunate opportunity to have formed friendships with extremely genuine, dedicated and intelligent people. Motivated from my UWO mentors, academia has fused with competition. As a scientist and athlete, I prefer to test physiological mechanisms with my favorite sports. Specializing in running 800 meters and marathon kayaking has allowed for rigorous genetic, nutrition, physical training and resting variables to be tested. Consequently, I have developed a plethora of research and learning material in the educational vision.
Educational Vision - My educational vision is to re-design the Biology (SBI3U/4U) & Exercise Science (PSE4U) curriculum as a consulant and become a Metabolic Processes & Biology Education Professor. I believe Biology and Exercise Science can be taught more effectively with nutrition, metabolism and training as an operative template. I have started this quest as a hobby that originated from intensive Biology and Physiology study and research (Dr. Peter Lemon- UWO, 2001) that will culminate in an M. Ed. thesis and dual volume book:
- Senior Biology & Exercise Science Education in Ontario
- Learning Complex Biology via the Metabolic Manipulator
The first volume is comprised of theory and philosophy for curricular change. The second volume is comprised of learning techniques for complex biology, via the 'Metabolic Manipulator', a template incorporating nutrition, metabolism and exercise to advance learning in biology.
I hope you enjoy your learning experience. For study applicatioin, 5 units will be posted on this site for SBI3U and 4 for SNC2D:
- Cellular Processes (2 pages)
- The Metabolic Manipulator
- Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration
2. Genetics (SBI3U) or Chemical Processes (SNC2D)
3. Internal Systems and Regulation (SBI3U) or Motion (SNC2D)
4. Diversity of Evolution (SBI3U) or Cellular Processes - part II (SNC2D)
5. Plants and other cells (SBI3U)
Please stay tuned and check back during the 2008 / 2009 academic year for postings and updates!