Refresher and Enrichment Program for High School Chemistry Teachers of SW Missouri

该提案的目的是加强密苏里州西南部25至35名高中化学教师的背景和准备。该计划将分两个阶段进行。第一阶段将涉及25名教授高中化学的中学教师，但他们只有化学副修或更少的正式准备。该计划将包括对基本化学原理的深入复习，花大量时间解决问题，涉及适合在高中实验室使用的实验的实验室工作，以及由教学人员进行的实验室演示，教学人员将同时鼓励参与者开发自己的演示。参与者将在夏季研讨会和学年期间与导师密切合作，导师将是该地区实力雄厚的高中化学教师之一。基础课程将从为期三周的夏季研讨会开始，然后是学年期间的四个周六研讨会。第二阶段将于明年夏天开始，选择25名教师，其中多达2/3的人将参加上一个夏天。这一阶段的教师比第一阶段的教师有更深入的背景，将包括几个理论主题的深入讨论，如有机、化学、生物化学、环境化学和计算机辅助教学。讲座、实验、问题解决和演示环节将再次安排给这组教师。预计将有大约35名不同的教师在两个阶段中的一个或多个阶段参与该计划。评估将通过对参与者及其学生的前后测试，以及导师教师和大学工作人员在课堂访问期间的观察来进行。我们收到了接受服务的高中的来信，支持在职时间实施和鼓励化学教学的改革

The purpose of this proposal is to strengthen the background and preparation of 25 to 35 high school chemistry teachers in southwest Missouri. The program will be carried out in two phases. Phase I will involve 25 secondary school teachers who are teaching high school chemistry, but who have only a chemistry minor or less of formal preparation. The program will involve an intense review of basic chemical principles, a considerable amount of time spent on problem solving, laboratory work involving experiments suitable for use in a high school laboratory and laboratory demonstrations performed by the instructional staff who will concurrently be encouraging participants in the development of their own demos. The participants will work closely, both during the summer workshop and during the academic year, with a mentor who will be one of the area's strong high school chemistry teachers. The basic program will start with a three-week summer workshop, followed by four Saturday workshops during the school year. Phase II will commence the next summer, with the selection of 25 teachers, as many as 2/3 of whom will have been participants the previous summer. This phase is for teachers with a deeper background than Phase I teachers and will include more in-depth discussion of several theoretical topics, such as organic, chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry and computer-aided instruction. Lecture, laboratory, problem-solving and demonstration sessions will again be scheduled for this group of teachers. It is expected that about thirty five different teachers will be involved in the program in one or more of the two phases. Evaluation will be carried out by pre and post-testing the participants and their students and by the observations of the mentor teachers and University personnel during their classroom visits. Letters were received from the high schools being served supporting inservice time to implement and encourage changes in the teaching of chemistry.//