Keeping your student's minds sharp is a challenge
that science educators face every day of the school year. The simple fact of
the matter is that high school science students, like students in any other
class taught in your school district, don't like to study. More and more,
students are finding themselves graduating from high school and moving on to
college without ever having studied for a single test in their lives. To help
encourage your students to study, here at 3 tips you can put to work in your schoolscience classroom.
Verbal Reminders
Students often forget that they have tests coming
up until it is too late. You're all too familiar with students walking in to
your classroom and frantically grabbing their books or notebooks as they
realize that today is test day. If you continually remind your high school
science students that the test is coming, some of them will bother to study,
and may even improve their grades because of it. By being told every day that
they need to study for the test, you may just get through to some of them.
