The Systemic Approach to Teaching and Learning [SATL]: Operational Steps for Building Teaching Units

Systemic diagrams are the key to creating units of study for the method described as the Systemic Approach to Teaching and Learning (SATL). Here we present a detailed description of the generation of systemics. The general approach is first discussed to establish the basic ideas of SATL. The general method is then specifically applied to a portion of the aromatic chemistry of benzene and its simpler derivatives. Finally, examples of SATL-oriented questions for student assessment are presented.