Strengthening High School Chemistry Education Through Teacher Outreach Programs A Workshop Summary to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2009) / Chapter Skim
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6 Activities by Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations
6 Activities by Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations
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The American Chemical Society sponsors several programs for high school chemistry teachers and can have a substantial influence on high school chemistry through its affiliates, local sections, and clubs. The Hach Scientific Foundation offers scholarships for chemistry majors and for people working in chemistry-related fields who intend to become chemistry teachers, and it supports training programs for current teachers.
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substantial professional development for teachers. For many Bayer also has supported efforts to assess the state of science classrooms, McCourt observed, inquiry-based learning education in the United States, including an annual survey involves a "complete shift" in the way teachers are teaching on STEM programs, policies, and practices.
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A new edition of the teacher standing in front of you, there is instant credibility, book Chemistry in the National Science Education Standards because they can say that when I did this I found that this addresses standards and provides models for meaningful trick helped." learning in high school chemistry classrooms. In 2001 the program transitioned to a fee-for-service The ACS has looked periodically at the idea of forming organization, which required that it continually develop a stand-alone high school chemistry teachers association. new products and services for teachers, in part through Although the idea has not gained traction in the past, said partnerships with private organizations.
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a lot of untapped potential here." In the 2007-2008 academic year, the foundation began In northern Colorado, the foundation runs a program to offering scholarships to chemistry majors who plan to go bring together almost all of the chemistry teachers in four into teaching. At least two $6,000 scholarships are provided local school districts to engage in workshops organized at each of the land grant universities in the country, which around the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, or ensures that the program will have a national reach.
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and development, treating teachers as partners, incorporat Furthermore, survey results strongly suggested that teachers ing educational standards, using master teachers, provid experienced significant growth in their knowledge of bioling continued resources such as undergraduate teaching ogy and chemistry concepts and the use and theory of the assistants and equipment libraries, encouraging networking, instrumentation underlying the experiments. The positive providing subsequent experiences, and including support impact of the program on teacher content knowledge and for evaluation.
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Examples Thiry discovered that corporate foundations tended to supinclude competitions "that have students inventing things port different activities than private foundations. Corporaor solving problems," said Laursen, who summarized the tions tended to fund student scholarships and competitions study's findings at the workshop, or scholarships "for high and small classroom grants to entrepreneurial teachers.
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A similar instrument, also available on the and modeling and discussing effective teaching and learn- SALG Web site, is the Undergraduate Research Student Selfing methods. Evaluating teacher professional development Assessment (URSSA)
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