This sounds good, but what this teacher following the directions in a lab
manual? Did this person see something on you-tube and use that? We gave no
idea.
No details. This person might just be stupid. Chemistry teachers do not
have to have any “Chemistry Education” Training to step into a classroom. This
was in Tennessee, so maybe they are desperate to have someone teaching
Chemistry. Lots of schools have Biology Teachers teaching Chemistry Courses.
If that’s the case, the school administration is at fault for putting someone
without the knowledge in the classroom.
IMHO The answer is NOT just MORE REGULATIONS!
On May 17, 2018, at 12:26 PM, Tanner, Ruth <Ruth_Tanner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
This direction has real and practical potential. I would like to see the
required course independent of college course programs, as such, to have
standard oversight on the “curriculum” of the program. In addition to
students who are chemistry majors, students who are not chemistry majors
could also be required to have this safety certification to teach chemistry.
Ruth Tanner
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If it is tested on the field, with really good data collection, it could be
potentially added as the requirement to get the chem license, at least in MA.
It will be good to get volunteer chemistry high school teams to try it out
first.
If it is adopted It will encourage college programs to provide such a
class/training for their future graduates in chemistry teaching. Good selling
point if they do it ahead of it!
I think the ACS HS safety booklet can be streamlined to adapt it to more
realistic HS lab settings, it could be a good start point for the course. I
am thinking it could even include a lesson on GHS, something about chemical
purchasing habits, student training, etc.
The Hines Family
Bedford, MA
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Is it possible to make this kind of course a requirement for license
certification?
Ruth Tanner
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On May 16, 2018, at 6:24 PM, Esther Hines <des_hines@xxxxxxx
<mailto:des_hines@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Lets design a lab safety course specifically for HS Chemistry educators. High
school resources are very different from the ones available at the college
level.
The Hines Family
Bedford, MA
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Yes, George,
But some teachers don't know of the existence of these resources.
And they may not have the time nor inclination to work on this stuff before
using it in class.
Cary
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There is a substantial literature available for teachers. For example,
University of Wisconsin Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri (born 1939) has given
more than a thousand chemical demonstrations to students and their teachers
(including eight Christmas lectures, in the spirit of Michael Faraday, on
Wisconsin Public Television). Shakhashiri throughout his career has been an
advocate for safe and pedagogically effective classroom chemistry
demonstrations, and has published several handbooks of chemical
demonstrations for teachers: Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Chemical Demonstrations:
A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press;
vol. 1, 1983; vol. 2, 1985; vol. 3, 1989; vol. 4, 1992; vol. 5, 2011).
