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This year I will be teaching Honors Chemistry and AP Chemistry.
I believe strongly that high school students will not leave prepared for college courses unless they receive a rigorous and challenging set of science courses in high school. Students in my class will be challenged at a level they have probably not experienced prior to taking my courses. In the end, they will leave better prepared for any future endeavors they decide to pursue.
I design and run my course with the following ideals:
- Science is the best way of understanding the natural world.
- Science education is necessary to produce a productive member of society.
- Science education is vastly superior in preparing students for post-secondary success.
- Science can be learned by all.
Science courses are not easy, despite what some teachers may say. The thing is, it shouldn't be. Science attempts to understand extremely complex ideas and cannot be made to be something it is not. Nevertheless, it is important that we all accept science can be learned by anyone. It takes time, patience, practice and a dash of enthusiasm, but with time, the concepts in any science are learnable and applicable to many of life's questions and endeavors. Indeed, many of the great advances in medicine, technology, industry (and so much more) that we enjoy today is because of scientists who started off in the same position you are in.
You will need to dedicate the time if you want to succeed in my courses. Please be ready to work hard and you will benefit greatly from what this course has to offer.
I believe strongly that high school students will not leave prepared for college courses unless they receive a rigorous and challenging set of science courses in high school. Students in my class will be challenged at a level they have probably not experienced prior to taking my courses. In the end, they will leave better prepared for any future endeavors they decide to pursue.
I design and run my course with the following ideals:
- Science is the best way of understanding the natural world.
- Science education is necessary to produce a productive member of society.
- Science education is vastly superior in preparing students for post-secondary success.
- Science can be learned by all.
Science courses are not easy, despite what some teachers may say. The thing is, it shouldn't be. Science attempts to understand extremely complex ideas and cannot be made to be something it is not. Nevertheless, it is important that we all accept science can be learned by anyone. It takes time, patience, practice and a dash of enthusiasm, but with time, the concepts in any science are learnable and applicable to many of life's questions and endeavors. Indeed, many of the great advances in medicine, technology, industry (and so much more) that we enjoy today is because of scientists who started off in the same position you are in.
You will need to dedicate the time if you want to succeed in my courses. Please be ready to work hard and you will benefit greatly from what this course has to offer.
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