Pedagogy
1. The Best of Both Worlds: Mixing and maintaining course levels
multiple grading scales
advantages and disadvantages of combining different levels in one class
2. Delocalizing the teaching staff or who's that up there teaching our class now?
who are the chemistry teachers?
teachers' schedules
3. Discovering Principles from Experiments Before Learning the Principles or Science as Scientists Do It
is the Spanish civil war art?
science and skepticism
4. The Open Lab Concept
an experiment which almost worked ...
after school open lab schedule
laboratory data
5. Emphasizing the Processes of Science - De-emphasizing Truth
education: process or content
some quotations on the pros and cons of measurement
the nature of reality: three positions
6. Students Teaching Students in an Atmosphere of Discovery or Student-Directed Cooperative Learning
lectures and listening
7. Science Education is Mostly About the Travels and Much Less About the Destinations
discovering principles from experiments
hydrate lab conference notes
education is the journey, not the destination quotations file
8. Interdisciplinary Education : We hope to develop and inspire poets as well as scientists
why every English classroom should have a periodic table?
quotation file on the language of mathematics
mathematics, physical science, and the arts
science, mathematics, and beauty
why is the unit entitled "language"
9. Focus on Translation: Studying the Language Barriers Among Different Disciplines
how we teach students to translate
10. Students Are Given the Responsibility for Their Own Educations
the student is always right or a religion of teaching chemistry
on student responsibility for learning
nature of the course or course strategies
11. The Student Centered Classroom with the Teacher as Guide and Colleague
quotations on the virtues of making mistakes
the teacher as colleague or preserver of the archetype
12. Working Towards the Art of Chemistry
how we construct repeatable quizzes which are computer graded?
on developing creativity
13. Taking the Next Step: from Certainty to Ambiguity
ambiguity
14. Shifting the Focus from Answering to Questioning
quotations about the relative merits of questions and answers
using worksheets to prepare for quizzes in chemistry
15. Shifting Grade Control to the Students
16. Reducing Student Stress while Maintaining Rigorous Course Standards
maintaining individual accountability with group assignments
chemistry quiz rules
re-tests
a forgiving system of late assignments
the 150% rule
the 100% rule
evaluation sheets
internet links designed to help students to cope with stress
individual and group work
points
17. We Judge Work not People
18. Controlling Cheating
Forum
19. Lab Events
an example of a lab event
20. Dart Board Chemistry
elementary crossword puzzle
21. The Teacher as Primary Obstacle
the value of a faulty derivation
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