This study was a case study that had been carried out among ten chemistry student teachers who had undergone
practical teaching during the previous semester II 2011/2012. They are student teachers from the course Bachelor of
Science and Computer with Education (Chemistry) at the Faculty of Education of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. In
this study, qualitative data had been collected through video recording of the process of teaching through
experimentation as demonstrated by the respondents (student teachers) on three different days which were 9th, 16th
and the 23rd of October 2012. During their presentation on teaching on doing the experiments, the ten chemistry
student teachers had been divided into five groups where there were two persons in a group. This study was carried
out to critically review the teaching methods being employed by the five groups of chemistry student teachers while
teaching experiment. The experiments as presented by the five groups mainly focused on the topics in Form 5
Chemistry. Besides the video recording, the lesson plans that they had prepared for the day was also collected as one
of the resources for the study. A short interview with the respondents was carried out to determine their point of
views on supporting the teaching method that they had applied in teaching experiment. All of the qualitative data
were reviewed by the researchers. Results were reported and tabulated. The teaching method applied by the student
teachers will be compared with the best strategies suggested by the previous researches. The characteristics of the
three teaching strategies were identified and they were direct instruction, inquiry strategy and constructivism
approach. The characteristics of the three teaching strategies were summarised as follow: