Are you the parent of a high school student who is struggling in chemistry? If you are, your child may have come to you asking for assistance. As proud as this may make you feel, you may also feel helpless. After all, it may have been years since you were last in a formal school setting and it might have been even longer since you have had a class in chemistry. If you are ever faced with a situation like this, you may be wondering what you should do.
One of the first things that you should do, as a parent whose child is seeking chemistry help, is not assume that the situation will go away. If your child has a question on a chemistry homework assignment, do not believe that getting the correct answer the next day in school is enough. All parents are encouraged to remember that one chemistry homework assignment is likely related to others that will come. If your child does not properly proceed, they may experience problems with chemistry for the rest of the school year, as well as for years to come.
Since it is important for your child to seek assistance when they need chemistry help, you may be looking for more information. One of those options is to educate yourself on the subject. Whether you borrow your child’s chemistry book on nights or on the weekends or if you use the internet to your advantage, you can re-familiarize yourself with the subject. If you enjoyed chemistry in high school or in college, no matter how long ago that was, you may find most of what you learned come flooding back to you. This approach allows you to provide much needed assistance to your child.
As previously stated, you can use the internet to your advantage when looking to reexamine chemistry. When doing so, you may be surprised with what you find. There is information online that highlights valuable chemistry resources, free of charge. There are also websites that provide access to chemistry tutors at the drop of a hat, usually for free or for a reasonable fee. These are all resources that your child can benefit from using. You can point your child in the direction of the internet or you can take the time to bookmark a few helpful online chemistry resource websites for them.
Another great approach involves speaking with your child’s chemistry teacher. Doing so may produce a number of results. First, your child’s chemistry teacher may agree to give them extra help in one-on-one tutoring sessions, they may provide extra educational tools and resources that your child can benefit from using, or they may be able to provide you with the contact information for local tutors. Speaking of local tutors, there are a number of benefits to receiving one-on-one personal chemistry help, but it is also important to mention that many students feel more comfortable seeking assistance from the internet.
As you can see, there are a number of different ways that you can go about getting chemistry help for your child, even when you are unable to. As a parent, it is important to know where to turn when you are unable to provide assistance to your child yourself.
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Jeff, I must admit I am very impressed with your work in tutoring chemistry students! It certainly awakens my interest in chemistry and teaches me a little about it. I plan to buy your DVDs and recommend them to anyone wishing to learn the basics of chemistry.
They should be fine as long as you are paying attention in class and stuff. Ask if your teacher if theres something not covered in the books
You should go with what you enjoy most.
Here's some thoughts:
To be a chemistry teacher at a school, a BSc is enough + teacher training…go beyond this and you'll be financially worse off.
To be a lecturer of chemistry at a University etc will pay more and a Phd would be of benefit.
To be a doctor will give a good salary and a guarantee of a job any where in the world. There are also teaching opportunities in hospitals etc. Maybe organise yourself some work experience to help you decide / give you the opportunity to speak to people in the field.
Other jobs in chemistry: Industrial chemist, research scientist, Pharmaceutical Research, biochemistry (more money in this) or how about chemical Engineering (designing vessels / chemical plants – can lead to travel, pays more than a chemist).
hope this helps.
Short answer: no.
Long answer:
Intelligence is a function of both biology (genes/"nature") and also environmental conditions (experiences/"nuture"). That you can't predict intelligence solely by genetics is an understood fact. However your suggestion genetic variation – ie. children having different genes from the parent – is a key factor in intelligence is not quite right. Although it is a factor, the effect of genes on intelligence between parents and children (~.30) seems to suggest that your notion parents intelligence is unrelated is flawed.
It is an error in logic to think that:
Schizophrenia involves higher dopamine
Schizophrenia reduces cognitive function/ability (although this might be contestable)
Therefore adjusting neurotransmitters will allow people to improve cognitive functioning.
I am not a doctor so I can't give you a diagnosis but I am a teacher so I do have some background. It sounds like you have difficulty with learning from things you are hearing. There are different learning styles out there – the 3 main types are visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Generally speaking, this means that someone who is a visual learner learns best when things are in front of them – that they can see them. This might mean that you are really good at studying from a book and notes. Auditory learners learn from hearing things and can remember and absorb those things simply from someone saying it to the person. Kinesthetic learners will learn new things easily through doing things, touching things, moving things. For example, they might learn about patterns in math through actually building the pattern from blocks or some sort of manipulative.
It sounds to me that you are not an auditory learner. That doesn't necessarily mean that you have a learning disability or that you are developmentally delayed. I doubt you would have made it as far as you have with no one catching a learning disability. It could happen, but as a teacher I would have to say we are pretty good at catching major issues.
Here are my suggestions….
~check out this website http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm
that site will tell you about the different learning styles and it has a little quiz you can take. You can also just type in "learning styles" on a search engine and you are sure to get lots of info.
~Talk to your teachers outside of class time and tell them that you want to try some new things to help with making sure you don't miss anything.
~Teachers might be willing to give you the notes the day before so that you can go over the notes ahead of class and then if you still don't understand the notes on the day that the material is given in class you could ask for more explanation.
~You could ask your teachers for permission to record their class so that when you get home you can listen to everything again and see if you missed anything in your notes.
~If you can get the notes ahead of time, spend time making them into notes that you can understand more clearly – make a chart or a diagram of the important parts so that you can get a clear picture of what you need to focus on during class.
~Your teacher may be willing to go through and give you a list of the really important things in class or go through your notes with you to highlight the important parts and help you fill in the things you missed in class
I really hope this helps. I would suggest talking to a counselor, especially if you can't get the teachers you have to help you out. Good luck and don't give up!
well it is his classroom…and he is trying to offer something you signed up for…he should have a sense of being right in his classroom where he is teaching…. i still side with you , that there is no excuse, not unless you are a ongoing distrubence in the middle of his class…still even then he is the adult and the one in the position to be the biggeer person…he shouldnt belittle anyone in his class…. i would just bite your tongue..and ride out the rest of the course… and like your parents said…just get a different teacher….there is always going to be someone in life that drives you crazy….and sometimes those people have a lot of power over for life….the sooner you learn to cope with this…and learn to pick your battles and control your anger the easier life will become
Symbols
1) Br
2) Hg
Explanation
1) 1 = 1 valence electron, 2 = 2 val. e. , 13 = 3 val. e., so on. indicates the number of valence electron(s).
2) they're stable, non-reactive because they've achieved octet status
3) Cs most reactive, Li least reactive. As you go down Group 1, reactivity increases because as the atoms get bigger, the nucleus have less control of the single electron in its valence shell, therefore it loses the single e easily.
Wow that last one. Hmm… gotta refer to the periodic table.
my guess; Rb, Ca, Sc, Fe, Te, O, F, Br
i'd suggest you check them out on wiki though.
good luck!
i used to have the same prob with my GCSEs about choosing the subs..but i recommend the 1st group as business maths and commerce aren't that good plus i believe that biology is better than computer science !!
PS :physics isnt that bad i used to hate them but after studying them they became normal 2 me !!
Too bad this is so long, because most people will not read all of it, but they should because it is hilarious!