05/24/2015
Throughout my teaching career I have seen students struggling with science even up to and during their PhD exam. yet they were able to explain their research which they were involved with personally. That gave me the idea that whatever one is personally involved with, one deciphers it, learns from it, and grows with it.
At that juncture I realized that the reason students are struggling with science is not because they are not intelligent but because the way we are teaching it. We need to teach them with science instruments not with books, lecture or store bought kits. That way they will get intimately involved with the instruments learning what they are, what they do, and in what situations they can use them to get what results.
The idea for establishing the Science Skills Center came out of such observations and I have seen the results of teaching science starting with the instruments. With this approach, I have not found anyone who did not get hooked onto the instruments and through them to science. Even school and college dropouts and persons "branded" as learning disabled were no exception.
The ability to observe and tinker with things is in all of us, why not capitalize on it and that is what Science Skills Center does.
During the coming summer the Science Skills Center is offering internships and research opportunities which will give the participants a head start for jobs and careers in medical and paramedical professions, food, pharmaceutical cosmetics and fermentation industries, including agriculture and environmental issues. Why not join and put summer to good use! See: http://www.scienceskillscenter.org/gpage10.html for details.
Stop running from science because you find it difficult. Science Skills Center has changed all that, reducing science to mere 150 simple concepts and skills which you readily learn at the Center in a hands-on fashion enabling you to become a versatile, knowledgeable person with wide open career path…