Strengthening High School Chemistry Education Through Teacher Outreach Programs A Workshop Summary to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Fol lowing the 1972 Biennial Conference on Chemical Educa tion (BCCE) , a group of high school teachers and chemistry THE CHEMED CONFERENCES professors decided to organize a similar conference directed Since attending a chemistry education summer workshop primarily toward high school teachers rather than college sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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The program covers 26 months of coursework over three con secutive summers and two academic years, with the pedaTHE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCIENCE gogy courses delivered during the school year. The content TEACHER INSTITUTE courses, which are taught by chemists at the university, are The Rising Above the Gathering Storm report cited the organized not around lectures but around inquiry-based University of Pennsylvania Science Teacher Institute as a learning experiences.
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a control group against which to make comparisons. Eric Besides five wet labs in each workshop, two computer labs Jakobsson from the University of Illinois discussed a project are offered -- one based on a model of air pollution in the Los called Chemistry Literacy Through Computational Science.
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For example, attended. When asked to rate the most effective aspects of the the South Korea Metropolitan School district recently sent program, the majority of teachers cited the close interactions 50 people for two weeks in two consecutive summers to with faculty members, with the laboratory experience being participate in the program.
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their teachers have participated in the program. Evaluations of the program have shown that the students The program also has found it necessary to do outreach to of participants spend more time doing laboratories that parents to convince them that science education is important involve taking measurements and doing graphical analyses for their children.
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