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Instructors View of Classroom
A Comparison Between Teaching Chemistry in the United States and Internationally
// Monday, September 25, 2017 • Lauren Bowers
Whenever I’m asked where I live and what I do, I answer with “I’m a teacher overseas.” The immediate response from people is “English? Peace Corps?” Teaching subjects other than English in remote villages is a pretty foreign concept to many people in the United States.
Literacy Stations
Literacy Stations in the Chemistry Classroom
// Monday, September 25, 2017 • Stephanie O'Brien
Researchers have identified many reasons for the perception of chemistry as a challenging subject. General chemistry introduces more terms and concepts to students than a first-year foreign language class (Rowe, 1983).
group work
My Research: Unpacking Active Learning
// Thursday, September 21, 2017 • Martina Rau
Collaborative activities are becoming increasingly prevalent in classroom instruction. Often, when instructors start to incorporate collaborative activities in their instruction, they also start “flipping” the classroom.
September 2017 JCE cover
Especially JCE: September 2017
// Sunday, September 17, 2017 • Erica K. Jacobsen
You learn something new every day. I feel like I do anyway, sometimes through the connections made on social media. A couple of days ago, Deanna Cullen tweeted about one of the articles from the September 2017 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education (JCE).  
DivChEd logo and JChemEd 9/17 cover
Searching for the Next Editor-in-Chief of JCE
// Wednesday, September 13, 2017 • Ellen Yezierski
The Board of Publication of the ACS Division of Chemical Education announces the opening of a search for the ninth Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Education (JCE).
roasting coffee bean research project
Stop trying to get your students interested in chemistry!
// Friday, August 25, 2017 • Tom Kuntzleman
In 2015, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) published a research report entitled Public Attitudes to Chemistry.1 I was surprised by the public’s lack of interest and enthusiasm for chemistry reported therein. Two-thirds of those surveyed reported negative or neutral feelings towards chemistry!
Mindset poster
Building Buy-In Through a Growth Mindset Classroom Culture
// Wednesday, August 16, 2017 • Lauren Stewart
When you incorporate non-traditional pedagogies and grading systems into your classroom like Modeling Instruction and standards-based grading, you need to be concerned about buy-in from students and parents. Implementation without buy-in leads to frustrated students, parents and most of all teachers.