• Question: If you was a science teacher how would you increase grades ?

    Asked by Charlie harwood to Scott, Jim, Adrian on 10 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Adrian Buzatu

      Adrian Buzatu answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I would make an effort to increase the motivation of the students, I would tell more stories from the history of science, I would engage students more. I would solve more problems as an example of how problems are to be solved. This would lead to students understanding science more and thus increase the grades, too.

    • Photo: Scott Lawrie

      Scott Lawrie answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      Very good question, Mr. Harwood. It’s a constant struggle for teachers and the government between teaching children about the new, exciting things in the world (climate change, touch-screen phone technology, gravitational waves etc) and actually teaching the kids the basics they need to know to get further in science (like maths and equations). I’d try to do basic experiments that can open the door to all kinds of other interesting ideas (like Faraday’s electricity and magnetism experiments). This would increase motivation from the students and make them WANT to do better 🙂

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