California State University, Fresno

Science and Mathematics Education Center

&

Fresno Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparationof Teachers (FCEPT)

 

   are pleased to announce

 

Natural Science 140T: Modeling Chemistry

June 17th - July 5th, 2002

Units: 3

 

Time: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

 

Location: CSU, Fresno, McLane Hall Bldg., Rm. # 152

 

Units: 40.00 per unit (payable to CSU, Fresno Extended Education)

 

Lead Instructor:

 

Dr. David Frank - CSUF Professor of Chemistry
 

Description:

This exciting three week-long program will involve exploring some of the new pedagogical strategies for teaching science that can be used to make us more effective teachers. The emphasis will be in teaching chemistry. This course seeks to explore newer methods of conceptualizing topics in science by having students engage in authentic teaching activities that promise to be particularly effective in the classroom. Students of this course will collaborate in developing novel and engaging approaches of targeted concepts, and will present them to the class. They will review the available literature, then develop worksheets, activities, demonstrations, and experiments to provide their future students with a constructivist approach to learning. The emphasis will be on topics in chemistry.
 

Statement of Learning Outcomes

Participant will learn how to:

  • Use computers and technology in ways that significantly increase student understanding;

  •  Use hands-on, guided laboratory activities;

  •  Engage students in Socratic dialog both in lecture and laboratory;

  •  Address common student misconceptions;

  •  Use descriptive, graphical, mathematical, and diagrammatic representations;

  •  Develop a small set of conceptual models that students can use to explain discipline dependent phenomena;

  •  Create a student-centered chemistry classroom.

 

Features of Course:

 

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