2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education

Learning how to teach guided inquiry labs can be difficult even for the most experienced teachers. For new teaching assistants it can be an impossible assignment. Without proper guidance the guided inquiry lab can result in a horrible experience for both students and TA.  The symposium will discuss methods for guiding (training) teaching assistants to run guided inquiry labs, problems associated with using teaching assistants to lead guided inquiry labs and examples of successful solutions.

Presider: Steven Brown, University of Arizona

Related Papers

Introduction (9:30 am to 9:35 am)
P210: Incorporating guided-inquiry learning into the organic chemistry laboratory (9:35 am to 9:55 am)
P211: How cCWCS and guided inquiry laboratories helped a small community college obtain grant funding (9:55 am to 10:15 am)
P212: Writing lab reports one section at a time (10:15 am to 10:35 am)
P213: Guided inquiry in chemistry: Teaching assistant training courses for undergraduates (10:35 am to 10:55 am)
Break (10:55 am to 11:10 am)
P214: TA training: What to do for guided-inquiry laboratories? (11:10 am to 11:30 am)
P215: Incorporating successful guided inquiry in a TA taught program (11:30 am to 11:50 am)