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What makes a good science teacher?
The following bloggers have weighed in so far:
- Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Mothership Question #8: Good Science Teaching?
- A Blog Around The Clock: She Blinded Me With Science!
- The Cheerful Oncologist: AskaSciBlogger Question for June 22nd
- Adventures in Ethics and Science: What good science teachers don't do.
- Aetiology: What makes a good science teacher?
- Mike the Mad Biologist: What Makes a Good Science Teacher
- Good Math, Bad Math: Ask an SBer: What makes a good science teacher?
- Discovering Biology in a Digital World: Great science teachers one and all
- Dynamics of Cats: Ask a Sb: What makes a good science teacher?
- The Corpus Callosum: What Makes a Science Teacher Good?
- Gene Expression: What makes a good teacher
- EvolutionBlog: Why Are They Called Matches?
- The World's Fair: Being a teacher
- The World's Fair: Being a teacher, continued. Presumably you'll need one of these for tenure.
- Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog: Ask A ScienceBlogger: What Makes A Good Science Teacher?
- Neurotopia (version 2.0): A good science teacher?
- Uncertain Principles: Ask a ScienceBlogger: Teaching Science
- The Questionable Authority: What makes a good science teacher
- The Scientific Activist: Ask a ScienceBlogger: Being a Good Science Teacher
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I am not a science teacher, but having been a student I guess the job must be similar to that of a therapist (more my line).
A good therapist like a teacher should be non-judgemental in terms of the person they are working with. Enthusiasm, and heaps of it - often amid difficult circumstances can act as a beacon. The best form of learning they say is what we learn for ourselves. These are sometimes the hardest lessons, but a good science teacher will also make students feel they are discovering things themselves. They will be able to convey ideas using another approach, if the student struggles initially (wish my math teachers could do this!). A good teacher will be able to fuse the student's imagination to the myriad other worlds - micro to macro and the everyday in-between. Just think how hard it is to provide a 'wow' factor these days. At least one 'wow' per lesson...
Patience, respect, empathy and the constant sense of companionship as the science teacher recognises they too are life-long learners...
That's me a life-long learner, keen to balance analysis and synthesis; reductionism and holism each has a role to play, a good science teacher will pass this on too.
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