Putting students first: Opportunities and challenges associated with committing to the education of first-year chemistry students at a research-intensive university

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Deborah B. Exton, dexton@uoregon.edu, Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, 1253 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 and Paul Kelter, paulkelter@yahoo.com, Dep't of Teaching and Learning and Dep't of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northen Illinois University, Gabel Hall 159, DeKalb, IL 60115.
We have had the good fortune to work with first-year chemistry students for many years. We balance the freedom to test new and old ideas of chemical education with our other professional demands. We also balance our chemical education goals against the occasional resistance within the broader chemical community to the idea that chemical education is a learned practice requiring our constant interest in both the practice of education as it applies to chemistry, and the practice of chemistry as it applies to education. We will discuss how one of us has chosen to balance the opportunities and challenges of this job while the other decided to leave chemistry to focus on education.
 

Faculty Development in Chemical Education
8:30 AM-11:45 AM, Sunday, April 6, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Oak Alley, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008