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Being a science teacher comes with a lot of difficulties that do not exist in the other disciplines. Many things about the nature of science make it somewhat complicated and difficult to teach. It is important to acknowledge these complexities and areas of difficulty in order to be a successful science teacher.<\/p>\n
Teaching science can be objectively difficult. If you do not know, I will inform you. In teaching science you are teaching both content and processes of research\/lab methodology. Now I am not saying that other disciplines do not have to simultaneously teach content and processes, what I am saying is that in science both of these things are so paramount that they are of equal and full importance. This is just one aspect of science that can make it ridiculously hard to teach, on top of all the complications that come with having your own classroom.<\/p>\n
In my opinion I think that science is more rooted in creativity than knowledge of content. I say this because one can LEARN content, but one cannot LEARN to be creative, necessarily. Creativity is important in keeping things fresh essentially. Sometimes the content we are trying to teach as science educators can be so dry and boring and it is up to the educator to devise a creative way to get the content across. And this is where the biggest difficulty I see in science teaching formulates.<\/p>\n
We are taught that the most important thing we can do in a classroom is keep our students engaged in content, while effectively getting that content across to them. However, when we are trying to get creative in the classroom sometimes content can be loss. This is when we science educators reach a crossroads. Is it more important that our students are engaged in our content, or is it more important that they are able to reciprocate the knowledge on some form of assessment?<\/p>\n
Inevitably the nature of being an educator creates conflict between these two sides. On one hand we educators want our students to know and value our content, but also be engaged. In this day in age when teachers are so heavily evaluated and scrutinized based on state mandated assessments sometimes the student engagement falls shorts. This is because we are stuck in the paradigm as educators that lectures are the only way to get knowledge and content across to your students. As you may have guessed, lectures are also super BORING….<\/p>\n