Chemistry teacher in training

In my experience, the study to become a teacher in chemistry has always been centered around a few topics: the natural sciences (but mostly chemistry), didactics, pedagogics and professional development.
The natural sciences can be divided into biology, chemistry and physics. Biology can be simply described as the study of life. Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. And physics is the study of matter, energy, force, motion, time and space. The importance of the natural sciences  is the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena based on evidence, observation and experimentation.
 
Didactics can simply be described as the science of teaching. Firstly, students need structure and frameworks (Teitler, 2017, p34). Education is transparent if the students know what is expected of them (Geerts & Van Kralingen, 2017, p205). In the Netherlands education is focused on working towards final core competencies that have been drawn up by the government (Geerts & Van Kralingen, 2017, p181). Schools work towards the final competencies via intermediate goals described in a mandatory program of testing and finalization (PTA) (Geerts & Van Kralingen, 2017, p184).
 
Pedagogics is the study of raising young people with a specific goal in mind. In many countries, pedagogics does not exist as an independent scientific subject; but it does in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Someone who practices pedagogics looks at the development of the person and the relationship of the person with its environment. Within the classroom, the teacher has the important role of keeping the order, and can keep this order through several methods. Students require clear boundaries and need to informed when they show unwanted behavior. They must also be rewarded for desired behavior and require individual recognition as they go through a critical stage in their personal development.
 
Steven Covey describes important stages of development in the lives of people: dependance, independence and interdependence. Independence is the sovereignty over one’s own physical body and self-government over one’s own decisions. As a teacher, however, you also need to be interdependent. You will have to be able to work together with a lot of different people, who all have their own ideas and beliefs about the correct way to educate people. Therefore, a teacher needs to genuinely want to contribute to the success of its students and requires proper communicative skills.