Importance of your teacher

[kenhung123]

How important is it for your teacher? Or is a teacher mainly just to teach the basics and you study the rest at home?

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I don't think any textbook can fully encapsulate the chemistry course.
Chemistry is a weird subject because there will always be stuff that won't really make sense unless you ask someone else. It's important to have a good teacher who can explain things when you have questions.

If I could repeat year 12 I would learn every lesson from the textbook before I learn it in class, so I can have questions prepared

[Studyinghard]

I think a good teacher is very important. For me chemistry is only a subject that can be made fun if your teacher makes it.

Your teacher needs to have the right methods to teach you in a way that is quick and precise. The bad ones will take for ever and you still wont understand.

Doing all of this and also making it enjoyable is the key otherwise there is no motivation.

thats what i think anyway

[boysenberry]

I think some students would do better without a teacher or the classroom interaction. This goes not only for chemistry but with most other subjects. These sorts of students tend to find classroom discussions confusing, they get muddled up by what's said and just lose confidence. They are not stupid but rather they do not fit in well and are unable to play active roles in classroom activities. In such cases, they would be much better off spending that time reading their textbooks and doing other work.

[kyzoo]

I learn 95% of my stuff purely from the textbook. But I like learning from the textbook in class, not at home. If I try to sit down and study a textbook at home I get bored because there's no-one to talk to. Classtime is 50% self-learning and 50% chatting/mucking about.

[kenhung123]

I learn 95% of my stuff purely from the textbook. But I like learning from the textbook in class, not at home. If I try to sit down and study a textbook at home I get bored because there's no-one to talk to. Classtime is 50% self-learning and 50% chatting/mucking about.

Really? No teacher teaching?

[kendraaaaa]

Chem teacher was crap, textbook was crap. Arguing with friends in class was how I learned.

[Gloamglozer]

I learn 95% of my stuff purely from the textbook. But I like learning from the textbook in class, not at home. If I try to sit down and study a textbook at home I get bored because there's no-one to talk to. Classtime is 50% self-learning and 50% chatting/mucking about.

Really? No teacher teaching?

Not that there's no teacher teaching, but such is the life when you go to a boys school - mucking around & talking about chicks ftw.    lol

[kenhung123]

Crap as in they don't know their stuff?

[kyzoo]

I learn 95% of my stuff purely from the textbook. But I like learning from the textbook in class, not at home. If I try to sit down and study a textbook at home I get bored because there's no-one to talk to. Classtime is 50% self-learning and 50% chatting/mucking about.

Really? No teacher teaching?

Not that there's no teacher teaching, but such is the life when you go to a boys school - mucking around & talking about chicks ftw.    lol

XD I know exactly what you're talking about.

And to kenhung, the teacher teached but I never really listened. I'm the type who tends to do his own stuff rather than listen to the teacher, no matter how good the teacher is. If you ask any of my teachers (excluding English) they'll agree.

For example my Physics teacher is an exam marker, and apparently he's a really good teacher as well. But he said to me once "We've already established that you don't need a teacher." Actually I do but not in the "normal" way, if that makes sense (very vague, I know).

[kenhung123]

thats good that you can learn it all by yourself.

[EvangelionZeta]

Just quietly, kyzoo is a very special case - he used to turn up to year 10 top set streamed maths half an hour late, fall asleep in class and still get top marks.  :p

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I think teachers can be quite an underappreciated and underused resource. They are just as good a resource as VN, and most decent teachers should be willing to help you when you have problems.

[kyzoo]

Just quietly, kyzoo is a very special case - he used to turn up to year 10 top set streamed maths half an hour late, fall asleep in class and still get top marks.  :p

I don't deny it (class behaviour) but that's only because I already learned that stuff a long time ago. But it's not the same this year; most of the stuff I've had to deal with I've never even seen before.

[Ilovemathsmeth]

Well, I mainly self taught the Chem course but I think it's important to have a teacher who really likes to answer Chem questions and is good at helping out. My teacher was really helpful in answering one-on-one questions.