Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Simplifying Science For Students: Science Tutors

By Michal Kirk


How to get students involved in science is the usual dilemma science teachers face. Science is not easy to comprehend for some people because it is a very practical subject that demands thorough analytic thinking. Likewise, teaching the subject for science tutors can be a challenging at times if the student has little interest in it.

As science is not a textbook course, reading books to understand it is not adequate. One must be ready to conduct test on theories and analyze concepts to learn the subject.

Frequently, students get confused with the subject because they encounter terms that sound new to them. Science tutors can teach the tutees by teaching vocabulary words first. Help the students decipher new terms on their own by instructing them to concentrate on root words.

Some branches of science greatly depend on equations, while some of them depend on experimentation. For those that need to use equations, mastering the equations is the soundest, and perhaps the only, way to understand the subject. Memorizing the equations will be a lot easier if the tutor can make it clear how the equations come about.

For those fields of science that require experiments, science tutors should be capable of explaining laboratory with the students. You can explain the experiment with him after he has tested it at school since the student already has a lab subject included in his course study. Laboratory experiments help students to understand theoretical data better. However, if they don't have guidance, they might not be able to connect the relevance of such info with their experiment so you best be prepared to discuss it later on with them.

Always remember that a hard theory can be explained in several means. Don't repeat the explanation the same way if the tutee does not comprehend a theory for the first time. Rather, find other means to make him understand.

Science teaching isn't merely about reading books and scribbling down notes. Science tutors must be able to offer the tutees proper guidance in learning in order for the students to totally understand the concepts and theories.




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