Teaching Strategies

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Topic	Strategy	Title	Description
General Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Analytical Chemistry	Active Learning Student Participation Technology Online and e-Resources Other Technology	Clickers	Using clickers, put up say four ideas, and say, who thinks A and who thinks B, C, D. Now in the groups they need to defend their answer, and to talk about it. That way you get the feedback but you don’t have to say Bill, Mary, Jim, Jack, what do you think? You can get them to click their answers... more
General Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Analytical Chemistry	Active Learning Student Participation	Small Group Work	Use small group student-centred interaction using structured work sheets that logically develop students' conceptual understanding. It’s a learning cycle approach.
General Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Analytical Chemistry	Active Learning Student Participation	Student Questions	It’s very difficult to get students to ask questions because they feel they’re being picked on. But if they start putting up their hand and other students see that you’re prepared to be receptive to that then more and more will start putting up their hands. Invariably they’re good questions... more
General Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Analytical Chemistry	Active Learning Student Participation Technology Online and e-Resources	GroupMap	Do a discussion and use GroupMap to get a consensus. Link to GroupMap
General Chemistry Nature of Matter	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Macroscopic Analogies	Students come in, like all of us, trying to apply macroscopic analogies to everything – (the billiard balls colliding and similar things) and using them as models for atoms. Try to get across that it's a simple analogy but it's not as simple as that in reality. I guess go back a step and try and... more

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