Teaching Strategies

Topic

Strategy Type

Topic	Strategy	Title	Description
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Active Learning Transitions and Engagement Practice Problems Student Participation Technology Other Technology	Worksheets, Discussion and Responses	Lecture for five or ten minutes and use work sheets, which they pick up as they come in. Let them work on the worksheets, then have a discussion and use a response devise, like their mobile phones, to feed back answers.
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Active Learning Transitions and Engagement Practice Problems	Problem Breaks	Students’ patience in thinking about this material is quite short sometimes. So don’t lecture the material for very long. Have a break and get them to do a problem. Do this after introducing the topic, once it’s getting a little bit more concrete, that is, when they can actually work through a... more
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Content Structure Link to Other Topics	Relate to Student Interests	Relate the material to cool emerging areas such as quantum biology.
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Content Structure Big Picture Focus Link to Other Topics	Relate to Students' Planned Careers	The nature of the students is that there are some that are interested in this topic in its own right. But many of them want to end up doing organic chemistry and pharmacology, or medicine of some sort. This is a theory which is too much physics for some of them, so you’ve always got to relate it... more
General Chemistry Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Active Learning Transitions and Engagement Student Participation Technology Other Technology	Problem Breaks With Discussion	Make the students think about the ideas themselves. Have them talk amongst themselves about it. If there’s too much lecturer in the lecture it just washes over them after five to ten minutes. They need to have a break, think about the problems, do a couple of problems and talk amongst themselves... more

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