Chemical Education Workshop 2007
"Chemistry in the Classroom and Community"
The workshop is chaired by Dr Karen MAK, Dr SHIP Chee Peng and Dr Adrian LEE.
In keeping with SICC tradition, a one-day workshop on Chemical Education will be organized with SICC-5. We seek to provide a platform for teachers, educators, scientists and others involved in chemistry education in and outside of Singapore to discuss new paradigms in chemistry education across all school levels. This workshop will also provide an excellent opportunity for chemistry educators to exchange ideas and learn about the latest innovations in teaching.During the workshop, the following keynote sessions are confirmed.
The Ang Kok Peng Memorial Chemistry Lecture
Teaching Exciting Chemistry
Prof. Ronald Breslow
The Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry
Columbia University, USA
Chemistry is a wonderfully exciting field, with incredible achievements and prospects. However, in our chemistry courses we sometimes ignore this and focus on drilling students in the solution of numerical problems. While these skills are important for practicing chemists, they are not why we all joined the field. In this talk I will discuss how describing what chemists do not know is at least as important as describing the past. When students begin to think about how to work on the important problems that are still unsolved, they will develop their creative skills and their enthusiasm for a future career in chemistry.
Keynote Lectures
Improving People's Lives through the Transforming Power of Chemistry
Prof. Ann Nalley
2006 American Chemical Society President
Cameron University, USA
In order to be an effective chemistry teacher, one must develop a teaching style which both engages the student and effectively conveys content. Chemistry teachers have the advantage over teachers in many other subjects because first and foremost chemistry is an exciting subject to teach. We have many resources with which to convey the excitement of our subject, including demonstrations, videos, over heads or power point slides, computer molecular modeling, and many other forms of visualizations. Many of our students demand that courses need to demonstrate relevance to their lives. I have spent the last two years developing material which I shall refer to as my 100 stories. These stories illustrate how basic research has been adapted through applied research to improve people's lives. They illustrate the underlying principle that the road to better health, improved materials, more plentiful energy and for that matter the road to solving most of our grand challenges goes through chemistry. This presentation will illustrate how these stories can be used in teaching chemistry to gain the student's attention and to illustrate the value of chemistry in improving our lives. They have been developed as one page stories which can be downloaded into a power point presentation and can be used in lectures to chemistry majors, non-majors or in public lectures. In 2005, the Society developed a new vision statement, Improving people's lives through the transforming power of chemistry. This vision is the under lying focus of these 100 stories.
University-School Partnerships, a Win Win Situation?
Prof. Dudley Shallcross
Outreach Director
Bristol University, UK
In the UK the secondary school Chemistry curriculum has undergone massive and continuous changes over the last 15-20 years, where fewer students have been taking Post 16 /pre-university (A level) Chemistry and even fewer going on to University to take a degree in the subject. Against this background, over the last seven years the School of Chemistry at Bristol University has established a network of secondary school teachers called CHeMneT. Through CHeMneT, activities aimed at teachers as well as students have been run with the result that the number of students taking Chemistry at A level in partner schools has increased and the number of applicants to the School of Chemistry has also increased. In this paper we discuss the reasons why this increase in numbers for both partners might be occurring and outline the benefits to teaching at both secondary and tertiary level from such a partnership. The role of practicals in particular will be highlighted and new ideas on teaching practical chemistry at tertiary level will be discussed.
Workshop Registration Fee
| Early Bird On or before 1 Oct 2007 |
Standard After 1 Oct 2007 |
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|---|---|---|
| One-Day Workshop | SGD 250.00 | SGD 280.00 |
| One-Day Workshop (MOE Teacher's Rate) |
SGD 200.00 | SGD 230.00 |
One-Day Workshop registration fee includes:
- Admission to all conference sessions on 19 Dec 07
- Lunch and Tea Breaks on 19 Dec 07
- Workshop Notes
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR WORKSHOP OPEN NOW!
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SICC-5 & APCE 7 Secretariatc/o Integrated Meetings Specialist Pte Ltd
Blk 998 Toa Payoh North #07-18/19
Singapore 318993
Tel: (65) 6356 4727
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Email: sicc5@inmeet.com.sg
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