Thursday, 3 November 2005: 8:30 AM-11:45 AM

International (Peabody Hotel)

Symposium (SYMG)

Innovations in the Teaching of Chemistry I

Session I. In so many colleges and universities, the teaching of chemistry, especially the lower-division service courses (general and organic) is done the way the instructors were taught many years ago: large lecture sections, small discussion sections taught by graduate teaching assistants, very low student engagement. In too often isolated circumstances, innovative pedagogy is introduced, including guided inquiry that replaces conventional lectures, peer-led workshop sessions instead of discussion sections, and the engagement of the student through the use of classroom response systems (“clickers”). In this symposium, instructors who have introduced these pedagogical innovations as well as others will describe them, and offer an assessment of their efficacies. Contributed oral presentations are invited. Organizers: Morton Hoffman (hoffman@bu.edu) and Cheryl Frech (cfrech@ucok.edu)
Organizers:Morton Z. Hoffman
Cheryl Baldwin Frech
Presiders:Cheryl Baldwin Frech
Morton Z. Hoffman
8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks
8:35 AM261The One-Semester General Chemistry Course for Engineering Students
Sandra Dudley, Ben Hutchinson
9:00 AM262A Multi-Institution Assessment of Guided Inquiry Learning
Andrew R. Bressette, Andrei Straumanis
9:25 AM263Calibrated Peer Review in the Laboratory Curriculum
Thomas D. Crute
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM264The POGIL-IC Classroom: Process Oriented - Context Rich Activities for General Chemistry
John A. Goodwin
10:30 AM265Facilitating learning: Implementing and developing POGIL activities
Marty Perry
10:55 AM266Water Quality: A Guided Inquiry Project in Introductory Chemistry
Bryan May
11:20 AM267Computer-Based Peer-Led Workshops in Honors-Level General Chemistry
Morton Z. Hoffman, Alan D. Crosby

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