Teaching Strategies

Topic Strategy Title Description
Small Group Worksheets

Use small group student-centred interaction using structured work sheets that logically develop students' conceptual understanding. It’s a learning cycle approach.

Link to Real World Outcomes

In organic chemistry for anything that's structure-based it’s imperative that they understand molecules are three dimensional - that they have a spatial requirement. And you can talk about the actual real-world outcomes of that, like drug design and penicillin structure and things which might be...

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Re-Iterate Line Structures

Make sure that you reiterate things like line structures and don't incorporate any stereo-chemical information until you need that.

Visualiser

Use the visualiser for problems.

Put Material into Context

You can liken teaching chemistry to hacking your way through a forest. It’s a lot of detail, and you can’t expect students to do the hard work of fighting their way through the forest or the jungle, unless they have a global view of where they’re going. Keep going back to applications in the...

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