Interaction

In the close future, I would like to teach Physics and Chemistry in ESO and Bachillerato. In my opinion, the way this subject should be taught has to be based on the student’s constant feedback. Besides what people could think, failure is the only thing we could expect about lectures where the teacher is the only one speaking, whose role is to share knowledge, and considering students as mere information receptors.

The importance of this subject relies on the fact that it tries to explain how our world works. So, every single person living on Earth has an idea about it. It doesn’t matter if that idea is correct or not, there is where we, as teachers, have to take part. Hence, the role of a science teacher is to take the wrong ideas and misconceptions about the world and nature and redirect them into the correct way.

Because of that, one methodology I consider appropriate is based on joining students into small working groups which will remain until the end of the lectures. These groups will act as a kind of research group in the sense that once the teacher introduces a specific unit or topic, proposing introduction activities about it, students will work together in order to find out the solution or response to the problem proposed.

As the role of the teacher is to constantly ask questions to the students, listen to the answers and then make them doubt about what they said, there is a constant interaction between the teacher and the students.