ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with mixed ability science teaching with a discussion of aims and objectives, and this would place the teacher in his traditional role, writing the syllabus, defining the aims, setting the pace. It intends to concentrate on pupils and other members of the science staff encountered in mixed ability classes in community comprehensive schools. For these pupils the physical and emotional conditions of learning need to be constructive, we must harness their natural enthusiasm and drive so that they are able to study science with the minimum of pushing. In designing a science teaching course from scratch one of the elements we allowed to influence us was how the pupil would see the course and what his or her feelings would be as the science lesson once again came round. Mixed attitude teaching sounds a strange phrase to use and really means, teaching groups of children whose attitudes to study vary from keen to uninterested.
