The experience of teaching «Inorganic Chemistry» course at an agricultural university

This paper discusses the experience of teaching «Inorganic Chemistry» course to the 1st-year-students of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Chemistry Department at Saratov State Agrarian University. The idea is substantiated that the content of the chemistry course is aimed at merging theory and practice. As practice shows, this course consists of giving lectures with the use of multimedia, performing laboratory work, practical exercises and test controls. The author proposes a method of organizing independent work among students, which leads to the successful development of the educational program of higher education. The paper contains some sample tasks of input control to control residual knowledge as well as sample test tasks and questions for student’s knowledge correct assessment. The author shows that such types of students’ knowledge control allow us to assess the level of material assimilation and identify problem points. The paper assesses the fact that a textbook developed by the department is used for a conscious and purposeful preparation for seminars, laboratory practice and exam. The author of the paper has come to the conclusion that the teacher acts as an assistant for students on their way to solve small scientific problems independently.