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Conversation Among Physical Chemists: Strategies And Resources For Remote Teaching And Learning Catalyzed By A Global Pandemic, Andrea N. Giordano, David Gardner, William W. Kennedy, Chrystal D. Bruce Jan 2021

Conversation Among Physical Chemists: Strategies And Resources For Remote Teaching And Learning Catalyzed By A Global Pandemic, Andrea N. Giordano, David Gardner, William W. Kennedy, Chrystal D. Bruce

2021 Faculty Bibliography

In the midst of a global pandemic in spring 2020, physical chemistry faculty gathered to share strategies and resources for teaching remotely. During this conversation, instructors created a shared document compiling the challenges they faced in spring 2020 and ways to improve teaching and learning in the physical chemistry classroom and laboratory when institutions reopened in the fall. We present a content analysis of the shared document that provides a snapshot of physical chemists’ thoughts at that moment in June 2020. The themes that emerged from our analysis are assessment, choice of learning objectives, course management, opportunities, resources, student motivation, …


Molly And The Mathematical Mysteries: Ten Interactive Adventures In Mathematical Wonderland, Sara K. Parrish Jan 2021

Molly And The Mathematical Mysteries: Ten Interactive Adventures In Mathematical Wonderland, Sara K. Parrish

2021 Faculty Bibliography

Global Perspectives on STEM


Breaking The Rules [Of Summer], Ashley Kaye Dallacqua, Sara K. Parrish, Mindi Rhoades Jan 2021

Breaking The Rules [Of Summer], Ashley Kaye Dallacqua, Sara K. Parrish, Mindi Rhoades

2021 Faculty Bibliography

Shaun Tan’s picture book/app, Rules of Summer, challenges conceptions of literature and literacy for young people, placing visuals at the center of the narrative in dissonance with printed text. This article explores this nonlinear, yet complex text and reactions to it from preservice and practicing teachers. We explore possibilities for schools, particularly with considering intersections between art education and literacy. We believe teachers can use artful texts like Rules of Summer in interdisciplinary ways to challenge their students, and themselves, to break rules around instruction, literacy practices, art education, and the current testing culture. We find that this narrative invites …