Whether you know it or not, science is a huge part of our daily
lives, from technology to transportation to medicine to legal issues and
government decisions. And the pace of research and discovery is quickly
accelerating. That makes it more important than ever to understand science,
therefore, students can better understand the world.
Teaching science requires critical thinking, effective
communication, collaboration and creativity. And in my experience in learning
sciences (biology), I have learned these things and they made my experience a
good one.
From grade 1 till grade 12, I enjoyed learning sciences. From grade
7 till grade 12, I enjoyed learning life sciences and chemistry. I have met
some teachers who were professional and have experience in teaching, and the
others who were not at all. Some give lectures, others explained lessons and
teach us.
In my early childhood education, science wasn’t so much exciting
but it was my curiosity to get answers to many questions that the most children
asks such as “why is the sky blue?”, “how does our bodies work?”. This created
a thirst for science in me. In this stage, teachers were constructing knowledge
by guiding me to understand every topic they explain.
My experience in learning science was developed stage over stage.
In high school, I enjoyed studying chemistry and biology and I used to get high
grades. This was possible because of a specific skillful teacher who inspired
me to love science more and more. It was in grade 12. The teacher always spread
positive energy in the class which increases my potential and motivates me for
recieving info easily.
She used to say some words
just can’t forget such as “love each other” , “you can do it”, “it is
easy”. When explaining lessons, she used to reveal that the topic is important
and valuable. In addition to that, she related every lesson to real life so I
know that everything I took is going to be applied in real life or practice it
one day. I remember that during explaining mitosis and meiosis, she used to
bring some forms to the class t clarify ideas. These patterns help us to
understand the division of chromosomes.
Moreover, this teacher used to enter the class with all the love
she had. If you see this image you’ll
think that this is her house and the students are her little children. Her
relation with us was never teacher to students relation, on the contrary; it
was a friend to friend or a sister to sibling treatment. Whenever she noticed
that some of us didn’t understand even if a small information; she tries to do
her best and explain again until we understand the whole thing as if it’s our
name.
This good relationship building can reflect her amazing teaching
skills, she make every student feels valued and important in this class and in
return we will be most effective.
In addition to that, the teacher used several techniques in class
to help us understand and develop which are:
·
Real-life scenarios that involve
case studies and ways of analyzing current problems.
·
Peer-to-peer teaching, which
involves us in our own education.
·
Scientific projects, which teach the
scientific methods of inquiry and experiment.
It is important for us as students to deal with real-life problems
and relate these problems to scientific theory. These methods that I
experienced in science classes stimulate critical thinking, communications, collaboration and creativity. Real-life and
case studies encouraged me to think critically. Social interaction gets us
educated about the world around us. Scientific project quite often have
long-term objectives and get us involved in expirements. This teacher affected
me positively so when I entered university I chose biochemistry to study.
Although It was hard to study
biochemistry at the Lebanese university, I enjoyed the major since it was
satisfying and quench my thirst for science. 3 years were full of knowledge and
experience I get from the professional doctors I have met.
Finally, building a good relationship with students, communicating
high expectations and standard, creating a fuzzy, secure, and safe classroom
helped me to have a high academic achievement and to remember day after day
what this teacher have made me feel that time.
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