Vision of Science Teaching
“I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious”
--Einstein
--Einstein
Effective science teaching should foster an environment that makes learning meaningful and makes connections to the real world. I can achieve this by relating important science concepts to my students everyday lives. As a science educator my goal is to foster and encourage students to enhance their natural sense of curiosity and wonder about scientific endeavours. By understanding my students' interests and teaching them how to begin asking questions will promote this belief. Through facilitation and inquiry student learning students should not learn what to think but learn how to think and make sense of their own learning. My goal is to mold students to become critical thinkers and contributing members of society to better their own lives and lives of others. I will offer project opportunities for students to challenge themselves and challenge existing knowledge. the I intend to offer students the foundation that creates opportunities for them to pursue higher levels of study in science. By challenging students to move beyond present skills, ideas and attitudes students will be capable of pursuing opportunities in science related issues such as societal, economic, ethical and environmental. I will model desired outcomes and deliberate practice of teaching science through repetition of skills.
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
--Albert Szent-Gyorgi
--Albert Szent-Gyorgi