Teaching High School Chemistry in the Context of Pharmacology Helps Both Teachers and Students Learn.

ABSTRACT: Few studies demonstrate the impact of teaching chemistry embedded in a context that has relevance to high school students. We build upon our prior work showing that pharmacology topics (i.e., drugs), which are inherently interesting to high school students, provide a useful context for teaching chemistry and biology. In those studies, teachers were provided professional development for the Pharmacology Education Partnership (PEP) in an onsite venue (either five-day or one-day workshop). Given financial difficulties to travel, teachers have asked for alternatives for professional development. Thus, we developed the same PEP training workshop using a distance learning (DL) (two-way live video) approach. In this way, 121 chemistry and biology teachers participated in the DL workshops to learn

SUBMITTER: Schwartz-Bloom RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4037129 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature