Creating a Teacher-Student Relationship

Creating a Teacher-Student RelationshipThe most important part of an organic chemistry tutor's job is, well, the teaching! Whether you are a student, an undergraduate or an adjunct professor, you'll find that the teacher-student relationship will be all the more important because this is where everything comes together.An interesting thing about being a teacher is that it goes right to the person's life. You go to school, get a degree, do research and experience life. As a teacher, you spend most of your time focusing on your students, learning as much as you can about their backgrounds, personalities and learning styles.Teaching is more than just a job. It is an art and science. As a teacher, you learn how to make the most of your time, you learn how to coach your students effectively, and you learn how to teach them.For this reason, I find it fascinating that we spend so much time talking about chemistry and chemical processes - two of the most basic tools of life - and yet, we don 't talk enough about what it takes to make this possible. I hope that you take the time to visit a teacher-student website, subscribe to a teacher newsletter or attend an Organic Chemistry tutor meeting. At each of these venues, you'll find valuable advice, tips and information about teaching and learning organic chemistry.The biggest advantage of becoming a teacher is that it allows you to learn about stereoisomerism. Basically, this is the study of molecular structures. In reality, this may seem like a long, tedious academic process but there are some easy things you can do to speed up the process. More teachers are realizing that this is an important and fun thing to learn and as a result, are creating websites and teaching resources to help facilitate stereoisomerism study.As you start to learn more about stereoisomerism, you'll also learn more about the subject itself. You will learn about what properties of molecules and the bonds are. You will also learn about how and why mol ecules form bonds and how they break bonds.Learning about stereoisomerism will improve your teaching in a number of ways. You will learn more about a topic, the people that are learning it and you will gain new insight into a subject. In addition, the knowledge you gain will improve your understanding of the subject itself. This is what makes a great teacher worth his or her weight in gold!