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).
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:40 AM, KATHERINE FOGARTY <
katherinefogarty@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think that's a great idea!
On May 14, 2018 at 10:28 AM "Tanner, Ruth" <Ruth_Tanner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Cary,
Possibly NEACT and NESACS could help with a practical program on safety.
Ruth
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On May 14, 2018, at 9:08 AM, Cary Kilner <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This has been ongoing since I began teaching in the early 1980s.
I have a collection of articles in *JCE, The College Science Teacher, The
Chronicle of Higher Ed, *et al. that have rued this trend.
And what's the result?
You see it still.
Chemistry teachers with no even rudimentary knowledge of descriptive
chemistry!
JCE presently publishes few articles on laboratory experiments and
descriptive chemistry.
New teachers cannot even find guidance there.
What's to be done?
Too few BS, BA chemistry teachers; too many schools!
Can the American Association of Chemistry Teachers and NEACT help?
WCK
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles J McDonald <cjmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: neact <neact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, May 14, 2018 8:58 am
Subject: [neact] Re: Some follow-up to 17 students
I see a lot more of these lab accident oriented stories of late.
Are they actually increasing of is it just the reporting that is
increasing?
In order to teach Chemistry in Mass and RI - and I would hope all states -
you need a BS in Chemistry at the minimum.
I know that’s not true everywhere and as the shortage of science teachers
grows, could the use of Teach-for-America and other similar
teacher-replacement programs exacerbate this problem?
I’m concerned that the erosion of the teaching profession, in general, is
going to severely impact science education in this country.
— Chuck
