We’ve all seen the news reports of accidents, injuries, or lab experiments gone wrong in the chemistry classroom. Do you find yourself reflecting and thinking about how careful you are in your classroom? Unfortunately, accidents do happen. It is so important for all chemistry teachers to not only think about how they can prevent accidents …
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Are you yelling at your students to get quiet and begin class? It can be so stressful to begin every class, of every day, this way! BellWork will bring quiet sanity to your teacher life! There are many names for it- BellWork, Bell Ringers, Warm-Ups, First 5’s, but they all mean the same thing. What …
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It is my hope that with this blog and website I can create a place where chemistry teachers can become a part of a community! Many times teaching chemistry is an isolating endeavor, and we just need a place to be with people that speak our language, feel the same pains, and gain the peace …
If you are a chemistry teacher, you have probably experienced teaching your heart out– just working away teaching nomenclature. They’ve got it! Great! Then, the first assignment comes along, and students promptly begin sticking roman numerals and prefixes everywhere! Ugh! What are they thinking? What is the best way to teach this concept in a …
Why is Collaboration for Chemistry Teachers Difficult? Let’s face it. Teaching chemistry is not easy! Besides being one of the more difficult high school subjects, teaching chemistry presents many challenges that are unique to the subject. But, one of the biggest challenge is the availability of collaboration among chemistry teachers. There are approximately 3.2 million …
Teaching in and of itself can be a very isolating profession. Your adult interaction time may be as little as twenty minutes per day – maybe as much as 30 to 45 minutes per day. Any type of professional interaction must be either after school hours, when everyone is exhausted and ready to head home, …
Teachers, did you count down the days to Thanksgiving Break? Was your next thought: “And then, there are only 15 more school days until Winter Break!” Follow these eight teacher tips to avoid the after-the-holiday return-to-work blues, and enjoy the best winter holidays ever. If you’re like me the idea of having roughly fifteen days off …
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