About A Good Physics Teacher

All over Singapore, you will find a large number of physics tuition Singapore centres which aim to provide a solid grounding in the basics of Physics, so that students who take up those courses can feel confident about taking up Physics as a viable career option. But the syllabi and teaching methodologies of all these centres are not optimized for best results. We feel there are four important aspects that every physics tutor in Singapore should be knowledgeable about and aware of. Let us discuss these four aspects briefly.

The first thing is that teachers should know the academic level of the students they are taking in. Most students would be normal, a few would be fast in grasping, and the very rare student would be gifted. Depending on how many students of each of these three categories a class has, the correct teaching methodology would have to be adopted. Teachers should be made aware of non-traditional teaching techniques like creativity, show-and-tell, out-of-the-box thinking etc.

The teachers of IP physics tuition must have the ability to make a useful and exhaustive lesson plan, and also execute the lessons as per plans. The lesson plan creation will need to be an iterative process involving planning, implementing, and reflecting. According to the lesson plan made, the tutor would need to set up the learning objectives, and parallelly create resources for use in the classes.

The next important thing that needs to be done is to ascertain the system of assessment that would be used. This would include not only formative assessment but alternative assessments as well. Since Physics is a subject that leans equally on theoretical aspects and laboratory work, the assessment methodologies would need to include ways and means to test both.

Outside of all the above aspects, tutors also need to spend time on constructive teacher-student interaction. The classroom interactions need not be limited to the tutor delivering the content and students bringing up their questions. The tutor needs to set aside some time every week for freewheeling discussions on different aspects of Physics which could be outside the curriculum as well, or even about latest developments in the world of Physics.