Adaption and Adoption of Workshop Chemistry

已经建立了一个由七个不同机构组成的联盟，以适应和采用研讨会化学同行领导的小组学习模式，该模式是作为国家科学基金会倡议的一部分，旨在对本科化学课程进行系统改革。这个由98个研讨会组成的化学联盟(98-WCC)包括卡罗莱纳海岸大学(SC)、古彻学院(MD)、印第安纳大学/印第安纳波利斯普渡大学(IN)、乔治王子社区学院(MD)、西乔治亚州立大学(GA)和纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院(NY)，迈阿密大学(OH)是牵头机构。代表每个机构的PI已经实施了一个试验性的研讨会化学项目，该项目扩大了这些努力，以服务于各种课程的更多学生。98-WCC与上级联盟和1997年MACK工作室化学联盟密切合作，通过处理研讨会和实验室的整合，以及使用实践活动作为研讨会课程的基础，来完善和扩展研讨会化学模式。我们还与上级联盟合作测试同行领导培训的模型，鼓励化学教师和学习专家之间的合作，以改进车间领导的校园培训，并与早期的项目合作，评估模型并促进其他机构使用该模型。教师培训将直接在古彻学院进行，该学院预计最终将在化学系和教育系之间联合提供一门课程，将未来的科学教师暴露在研讨会的教学环境中；在印第安纳大学-普渡大学，印第安纳波利斯正在为中等教育专业的学生开发一门教学方法课程，他们将被要求担任研讨会化学的学生领袖。

A consortium of seven diverse institutions has been established to adapt and adopt the Workshop Chemistry peer-led team-learning model, which was developed as part of the NSF initiative for Systemic Changes in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum. This 98-Workshop Chemistry Consortium (98-WCC) includes Coastal Carolina University (SC), Goucher College (MD), Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IN), Prince George's Community College (MD), State University of West Georgia (GA), and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY), with Miami University (OH) serving as lead institution. The PI representing each institution has already implemented a pilot Workshop Chemistry program, and this project expands these efforts to serve larger numbers of students in a variety of courses. The 98-WCC works closely with the parent coalition and the 1997 MACK Workshop Chemistry consortium to refine and extend the Workshop Chemistry model by addressing workshop and laboratory integration, and the use of hands-on activities to serve as the basis of workshop lessons. We also cooperate with the parent coalition in testing models for peer-leader training, stimulating collaboration between chemistry faculty and learning specialists to improve campus training of workshop leaders, and working with the earlier projects to evaluate the model and facilitate its use by other institutions. Teacher preparation will be directly addressed at Goucher College which expects ultimately to be offering a course jointly between the chemistry department and the education department, exposing future teachers of science to the Workshop teaching environment, and at Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis where a teaching methods course is being developed for secondary education majors in which they will be required to serve as student leaders for Workshop Chemistry.