A Multidimensional Approach to Improving Chemical Education

化学教育研究所（ICE）将提供三个项目，以满足国家需求，加强不同教师群体的化学教学。该项目将与加州大学伯克利分校化学系合作在劳伦斯科学馆举行。三组参与者是：(1)36名准备不足的化学教师，主要来自加州代表性不足的人口，他们将被选入基础项目；(2)20名经验丰富的化学教师被选入仪器项目；(3)20名经验丰富的化学教师。获奖化学教师被选中参加实验室领导计划。基础课程旨在更新这些有需要的教师的内容背景和教学策略，并将在两个夏季提供连续的四周课程，并在中间学年计划适当的后续活动。这个项目设计将允许教师有时间整合知识体系，并与项目人员保持密切联系。仪器仪表课程是一个为期三周的课程，将强调化学研究的前沿领域和现代仪器仪表作为研究工具的使用。参与者将准备材料与他人分享，并将制作一些简单的仪器供自己使用。实验室领导计划延续了去年夏天开始的努力，在这个项目中，这组经过挑选的教师将确定影响实验室使用的因素，并制定评估实验室学习的方法。项目成本的40%由参与者所在的学区、大学和员工个人分担。

The Institute of Chemical Education (ICE) will offer three programs to address national needs and enhance chemistry teaching of different groups of teachers. The programs will be held at the Lawrence Hall of Science with the cooperation of the Department of Chemistry of University of California, Berkeley. The three participant groups are (1) 36 underprepared chemistry teachers, primarily drawn from the underrepresented population in California who will be selected for the Fundamentals Program, (2) 20 experienced chemistry teachers selected nationally for the Instrumentation Program and (3) 20 highly experienced, award- winning chemistry teachers chosen to participate in the Laboratory Leadership Program. The Fundamentals Program is designed to update the content background and teaching strategies of those needy teachers and will offer sequential four-week programs during two summers with appropriate follow-through activities planned for the intervening school year. This project design will allow time for teachers to integrate the body of knowledge and to maintain close contact with project staff. The Instrumentation Program is a three-week program that will emphasize frontier areas of research in chemistry and the use of modern instrumentation as research tools. Participants will prepare materials to share with others and will construct some simple instrumentation for their own use. The Laboratory Leadership Program continues an effort begun during the previous summer in which this very select group of teachers will identify the factors that influence use of the laboratory and develop means of assessing laboratory learning. Forty percent of the cost of the project is shared by participants' school districts, the University and individual staff contributions of time.