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Chemical Information Sources/Teaching andStudying ChemistryIntroduction

It is sometimes the case that a chemist is asked to teach a course with little or no guidance or preparation. Likewise,students could often profit from consulting supplemental materials to assist in understanding certain aspects ofchemistry. This chapter will lead you to materials and sources that will be useful for both teaching and studyingchemistry.

Teaching of Chemistry

There are not a lot of books available to teach you how to teach chemistry, particularly at the post-secondary level.Attempting to fill that gap is a work by J. Dudley Herron The Chemistry Classroom: Formulas for SuccessfulTeaching (1996). The well-known chemistry educator Diane Bunce has written Survival Handbook for the NewChemistry Instructor (2004). Another book is Pienta, Cooper, and Greenbowe's Chemists' Guide to EffectiveTeaching (2009) For physical chemistry, you may want to consult Physical Chemistry: Developing a DynamicCurriculum (1993). More general works are Teaching Science: A Guide for College and Professional SchoolInstructors (1991) and A Handbook for Teachers in Universities and Colleges: A Guide to Improving TeachingMethods (1995). A comprehensive guide to chemistry textbooks can be found at the Chemical Education ResourceShelf [1]. George Bodner has written Theoretical Frameworks for Research in Chemistry/Science Education (2007)which reflects the recent upsurge of interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Notable examples ofchemistry courses on the Web showcase efforts to harness the power of the Web to chemistry teaching.Innovative approaches to teaching chemistry are found in such journals as the ACS Division of ChemicalEducation's Journal of Chemical Education [2], the Journal of College Science Teaching [3], and The Crucible. TheRoyal Society of Chemistry's Education in Chemistry [4] is described as a journal for teachers of chemistry at alllevels. The Bibliography of Chemical Education Journals and the various newsletters from relevant professionalgroups, such as CHED (the newsletter of the ACS Division of Chemical Education [5]), can also be of assistance.The JCE Index Online [6] can be searched for author names and titles from 1924 onward, but a complete list ofkeyword index terms has been supplied for articles published since mid-1995. The Journal of Chemical Education'slaboratory experiments are now easily accessible through the Project CHEMLAB [7] database. Several printedsources of demonstrations are available, for example,• Chemical Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers (2 v., 1988)• Chemical Demonstrations: A Handbook for Teachers (4 v., 1983-92)• Tested Demonstrations in Chemistry (2 v., 1994)• Inquiry-Based Experiments in Chemistry, (2000).At the college level, the ACS's Committee on Professional Training (CPT) [8] issues guidelines for certification ofprograms of chemistry instruction. Those can be found on the Web as: "Undergraduate Professional Education inChemistry: Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures [9]."A database for the broader field of education is ERIC [10], which has extensive coverage of relevant journal articlesas well as research reports from 1966 onward. A lot of chemistry material is included in ERIC.

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The Study of Chemistry

The ACS Directory of Graduate Research (DGRWeb [11]) can be a great help in selecting a graduate school in theUS or Canada. Issued every two years by the American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training(CPT), it covers the main disciplines of chemistry, including biochemistry, chemical engineering, chemistry,environmental science, marine science, medicinal and/or pharmaceutical chemistry, polymers and materials science,toxicology.The ACS CPT [8] has a number of publications on the Web, such as Planning for Graduate Work in Chemistry [12]"(8th ed., 2010).Many colleges subscribe to CollegeSource ONLINE [13], with over 23,000 catalogs from many colleges anduniversities. Both US and non-US institutions of higher learning are included. Peterson's [14] is another standardsource to help find information about college or university programs.

Summary

By availing yourself of the growing literature on the scholarship of teaching and learning, the best practices ofmaster chemistry teachers and educators can be found. There are also many tools to help you select an educationalinstitution if a formal degree in chemistry is your goal.CIIM Link for further studySIRCh Link for Teaching and Studying ChemistrySIRCh Link for Chemistry Courses on the Web

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Article Sources and ContributorsChemical Information Sources/Teaching and Studying Chemistry  Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?oldid=2063875  Contributors: Adrignola, Avicennasis, Gary DormanWiggins, 2 anonymous edits

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