Teaching Strategies

Topic

Strategy Type

Topic	Strategy	Title	Description
General Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Physical Chemistry	Active Learning Student Participation	Group work - Strong Students Help Weaker Students	Do a lot of group work in lectures where students help each other. Randomly allocate them, so the students are in groups which are a mixture of strong people and weak people. The strong people can help the weaker people. The students are actually very good at doing that, it gives you another set... more
General Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Physical Chemistry	Content Structure Real World Applications	Everyday Life Examples	Use things from everyday life. Things that they’re going to be interested in - solar energy, or designer drugs. So it’s mixing up a bit of everyday life with things that make up the interests of the majority of the students and that they are going to find fits with their future studies.
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Content Structure Real World Applications Representations Models and Representations	Real Life Applications	Relate material to real-world applications, for example, the ‘Particle in a box’ model for cyanine dyes. Link to Particle in a Box PDF
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Content Structure Big Picture Focus Focus on Fundamentals Qualitative Concept Focus	Qualitative Introduction	Introduce quantum mechanics in a very qualitative way, so they don’t get worried about it in a big way or worry about the mathematical treatments. Introduce just the big thing that it can tell us, but not be too concerned about the details. The ideas that flow from the qualitative concept are... more
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Content Structure Qualitative Concept Focus	Leave Maths Until Later	Introduce the concepts without being too mathematical at the second year level.

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