{"id":572,"date":"2014-04-11T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=572"},"modified":"2014-04-14T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:32:47","slug":"biosciences-teacher-of-the-year-2014-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/biosciences-teacher-of-the-year-2014-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosciences Teacher of the Year 2014 Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/04\/pk1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-574\" alt=\"pk\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/04\/pk1.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>We are delighted to report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/klappa.html\">Dr Peter Klappa, Reader<\/a> in Biochemistry, was a Finalist in the UK Higher Education Biosciences Teacher of the Year competition. All three finalists were invited to give presentations at the Heads of University Biosciences Spring meeting, April 8-9 2014 at Chicheley Hall, Bucks. Peter gave an excellent and very engaging presentation entitled &#8220;Providing effective feedback&#8221;, where he demonstrated novel methods he&#8217;d developed using an iPad as an interactive whiteboard in lectures, as well as methods for providing automated feedback from tests.<\/p>\n<p>Peter is pictured receiving his award as joint runner-up in the competition. Congratulations on an outstanding achievement!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.societyofbiology.org\/get-involved\/awards-and-competitions\/he-teacher-of-the-year\">https:\/\/www.societyofbiology.org\/get-involved\/awards-and-competitions\/he-teacher-of the-year<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/biosciences-teacher-of-the-year-2014-finalist\/&amp;t=Biosciences Teacher of the Year 2014 Finalist' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Biosciences Teacher of the Year 2014 Finalist%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/biosciences-teacher-of-the-year-2014-finalist\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/biosciences-teacher-of-the-year-2014-finalist\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/biosciences-teacher-of-the-year-2014-finalist\/&amp;title=Biosciences Teacher of the Year 2014 Finalist' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/biosciences-teacher-of-the-year-2014-finalist\/&amp;title=Biosciences Teacher of the Year 2014 Finalist' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to report that Dr Peter Klappa, Reader in Biochemistry, was a Finalist in the UK Higher Education Biosciences Teacher of the Year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/biosciences-teacher-of-the-year-2014-finalist\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24338,124],"tags":[80407,24336,80396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}