Saturday, 25 June 2011

Science Teacher

The requirement for a science teacher

You need to complete a four-year undergraduate degree in a scientific field such as biology, chemistry, physics or general science at an accredited collage or university. The degree you receive will usually correspond with the science subject you will be certified to teach 

Description of job
  1. Provide for activity changes -- perhaps something not on the lesson plan; for example, scrabble, hangman, pictionary.
  2. Be somewhat unpredictable -- Students will not know what comes next. Keep students in some suspense.
   3.Variety -- In teaching, variety provides for renewed interest in the subject matter. Use variety in how you have students work together. Do not always pair the same ones together. Provide for a variety of learning activities



Challenges encountered in the course of the work
The teaching of science subjects to secondary school students and college and university freshmen is often regarded as a difficult task. Even a well-prepared and well-structured teacher experiences that he/she is sometimes poorly received and unappreciated by the students.


Achievements
Being a successful and respected teacher also involves a kind attitude in class. How about a cheery greeting upon entering class, delivered in a fashion that the students know you mean it. The students are all aware of the fact that you are the expert so you don't have to show off your mastery. Humour and interest in class can dispel the weary, enliven the teaching atmosphere and make difficult concepts easy.



Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

 He was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Using the table, he predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.



Emil Abderhalden

(March 9, 1877 – August 5, 1950) He was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist
His main findings, though disputed already in the 1920s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. Whether his misleading findings were based on fraud or simply the result of a lack of scientific rigor remains unclear. Abderhalden's drying pistol, used in chemistry, was first described by one of his students in a textbook Abderhalden edited.


List Of Resources
1 ) www.ehow.com > Education ( Problem encountered by teachers in Secondary Schools/ehow.com

2) www.humanities.byu.edu/elu/teacher/bestteacher ( Best Teacher Description )

3) www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2001/november/teaching.htm ( Success as a science teacher )