Re: Chemistry

Actually,  I'm 'close' to the only teacher teaching chemistry.

Our department has been rearranged.  Last year was my first year of
teaching 
but I taught Biology and Freshman Science.

Both of our chemistry teachers left at the end of the year.  I will be 
teaching all of the honors chemistry sections and 3 out of 4 of the
general 
chemistry sections.

The other person teaching general chemistry will be in her first year of 
teaching and will otherwise teach freshman science.

I'm looking forward to teaching chemistry.  I feel more qualified to teach

it than I do biology.

I do have copies of the computer files that the teachers last year had 
tucked away on their computers and copies of their daily lesson plans. 
(though they don't have much detalil)

I just need to assimilate all this information into a coherent whole.  I 
have a goal of handing out the the students a detailed syllubus for each 
unit so they know exactly what is being covered and the problems that will

be assigned during the unit.  Our students tend to be extremely busy after

school and I want to avoid homework assignments that they only have one 
evening to work on.  If they have the assignments ahead of time they can 
work ahead if they know they will be busy on a particular night.

I feel good to be actually getting things accomplished so far this summer.

I think it will go well.  If I keep working :-)

Nan

"Rowley" <rowleykmREMOVE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> I have a few ideas... but I'm currently a bit overwhelmed.
>
> I'm assuming that you aren't the only teacher who going to be
> teaching chemistry (then again, maybe you are). If not why not
> get with the other teachers and see what they have to offer - no
> sense reinventing all the wheels on the cart. And I know that
> some places require teachers in the same department to pretty
> much teach things in a similar manner.
>
> Good luck with your first year.
>
> Martin
>
> K&N wrote:
>>
>> I'll be teaching Chemistry next year for the very first time :-)
>>
>> I figure I have two months to prepare... I better get busy.
>>
>> I have two different sections of chemistry (general and honors).
>>
>> My goals for the summer are to put notes into powerpoint so that I
don't
>> need to write them out on the overheads.  (I've been working
diligently. 
>> Am
>> getting close to done for one of the cl*****.)
>>
>> Next I plan to work through many of the problems in the book and decide
>> which ones to assign.  I'm also looking into 'extra' worksheets to help
>> students practice various concepts.
>>
>> Finally, I need to get organized for labs.  I've got to figure out what
>> supplies I have to work with and which labs I can actually do.
>>
>> Once I get all that done, I figure I can focus on actually 'teaching'
the
>> information.  I have a few ideas... but I'm currently a bit
overwhelmed.
>>
>> Nan