>Teaching Subject Knowledge (vs) People Skills
I’m sorry 11:05, a chemist with 20 yrs experience may be a great chemist, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that he can teach it well to others. There are other skills involved besides the basic skill of chemistry. To teach you must convey it in a way that is both interesting and informative to be successful. I don’t understand why you think becoming certified as a teacher is jumping through a lot of hoops.
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” a chemist with 20 yrs experience may be a great chemist, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that he can teach it well to others. There are other skills involved besides the basic skill of chemistry. To teach you must convey it …”
True, but without the chemistry knowledge, a Chemistry teacher, with just “those other skills”, is nothing more than a con artist.
You need both sets of skills to be very effective, but if I had to choose one set of skills over the other, I’d choose the guy with the core chemistry knowledge.
Very few people are so, so ineffective at communication that they cannot convey any of their knowledge to others. However if you’re a great communicator with nothing of value to communicate, you are just wasting everyone’s time.
