{"id":26,"date":"2022-04-22T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingchem.org\/?p=26"},"modified":"2022-04-25T02:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T02:29:44","slug":"end-of-the-week-and-end-of-the-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"End of the week and end of the semester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been teaching the second semester of sophomore organic this spring and we&#8217;re wrapping up the material in the next few classes.  Many of the students are working hard and doing well, but I have the sense that, in general, student&#8217;s backgrounds are weaker.  In particular, they are struggling with the basic concepts of Lewis structures and formal charges.  I suspect that this is and effect of covid (nobody learned anything for two years) and that their earlier courses are increasingly based on rote learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been teaching the second semester of sophomore organic this spring and we&#8217;re wrapping up the material in the next few classes. Many of the students are working hard and doing well, but I have the sense that, in general, student&#8217;s backgrounds are weaker. In particular, they are struggling with the basic concepts of Lewis&#8230; &raquo; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/?p=26\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingchem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}