Malcolm Hill

Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics • 2014

Title and Organization IB Biology Higher Level, IB Biology Higher Level Lab, The Brooklyn Latin School

Bio

As the first teacher of Biology at Brooklyn Latin, founded in 2006 as a specialized high school, it fell to Malcolm Hill to develop a two-year Biology curriculum that met the high standards of the International Baccalaureate degree. The curriculum he developed is exquisitely structured and coherent, with each concept and lab building on the one before. By senior year, students design and implement sophisticated experiments with almost complete independence. Mr. Hill and his colleagues have expanded his approach to create a four-year lab sequence. Says a fellow teacher, “Every lab is interactive, experimental and investigatory. With his rigor and seemingly endless patience, Malcolm creates not just strong science students, but scientists.”