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Work interests: Ass. Prof. Dr. in Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
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Work interests: Ass. Prof. Dr. in Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
Affiliation/website: https://mysite.kku.edu.sa/site/mbanifawaz/home
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Dr. Mutasem Z. Bani-Fwaz
Dr. Mutasem Z. Bani-Fwaz Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, King Khalid University, Abha, KSA.
e-mail: banifawaz@yahoo.com,.
Mutasem Z. Bani-Fwaz graduated with a bachelor’s degree majoring in chemistry in 1991, and a master’s degree majoring in physical organometallic chemistry in 1995 from Yarmouk University, Jordan. He received his PhD in inorganic and organometallic chemistry in 2008 from Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Bani-Fwaz has thus far published around 15 SCI publications, 1 book, supervised 12 undergraduates, 1 master’s, and has contributed...
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I wonder if undergraduate students can take and share the idea of producing a class chemistry journal that records some of their class background, questions and findings. This could be started at the beginning of a course, be completed part way through, and then be discussed and analysed as a project at the end.
While some students might excel at layout, others might excel at questions, others at providing answers based on class experiments, and others might be good editors.
The aim would be to give an opportunity for everyone to learn something, regardless of their starting level in the subject.
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In my opinion, the first goal in teaching chemistry is to have a solid curriculum and provide the students with the framework of knowledge. The understanding of chemistry concepts and the ability to solve various chemistry problems should be emphasized. Students need to be helped and encouraged in developing their own problem-solving abilities and styles, and the teacher should show students that there may be more than one way to approach a problem whenever it is possible. As many teachers realized, one of the most challenging things in teaching is that the teacher is always faced with a group of students with very different backgrounds and abilities, so the teacher has to try to help those with the poorest background and the least knowledge, without completely boring and discouraging those students who have a very good background. I believe that teachers need to begin a course by starting everyone on the same page and then providing a common intellectual space for student to develop from there. I strongly believe in cooperative learning. Teachers need to establish some protocols necessary to let the students develop ideas/concepts via e.g. prior assigned readings, classroom arguments and discussions, and after classroom experiments. This kind of interactive lecturing allows both students and the teacher to ask questions, and to build enormous confidence in the students about their ability to create original ideas. Skills like computer literacy and the ability to use the internet, e-Learning Systems (Blackboard-Elluminate Live!-Tegrity Classes) are pre-requisites for success. I believe that transfer of knowledge can be achieved efficiency using modern computer tools and with other audio-visual aids as well. Students should be assigned with computer work to learn how to use some of the computer programs to solve chemistry problems, to write papers and to give oral presentations, whenever it's appropriate. Student’s homework's and exams should be focused on basic understanding of fundamental chemical theories and concepts. It might be a good idea, too, I think, that the teacher assigns class projects for the semester whereby each student or group of students is required to design a new experiment/program. In this way, independent and comprehensive abilities of each student/group can be cultivated and assessed. In addition to the teaching in the classroom, I believe participating in undergraduate and graduate research is an invaluable experience that benefits the students as well as the supervisor. It is hard to imagine that the teacher’s teaching ability could be improved and the teaching contents could be updated if the teacher would not attend any research activities. Eventually, the goal of education is learning rather than teaching. I believe that students should be inspired to think on their own, and that's a good and healthy relationship between the teacher and his students which could motivate students potential learning abilities. A teacher should treat students equally with respect, whatever their educational and cultural background are.