New UAB Chemistry Course Trains Secondary Chemistry Teachers

High school science teachers needing chemistry hours to become “highly qualified” chemistry teachers or those who want to learn new chemistry experiments for their classes can enroll in a new University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) chemistry course designed for teachers.

June 16, 2006

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – High school science teachers needing chemistry hours to become “highly qualified” chemistry teachers or those who want to learn new chemistry experiments for their classes can enroll in a new University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) chemistry course designed for teachers.

Chemistry 619, Special Topics in Chemical Education, will be offered fall semester 2006, which begins Aug. 22. The course, which provides three hours of graduate chemistry credit, is supported by a grant from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) and is a partnership of the UAB Department of Chemistry, the UAB Chemistry Science in Motion program, the UAB School of Education and Birmingham City Schools.

The course includes online content to be completed at students’ convenience, online mentoring with UAB professors and other teachers and a lab kit to be used back in the high school classroom. Six Saturdays of lab exercise complement online coursework.

For more information, contact Jackie Nikles, Ph.D, UAB Department of Chemistry, at 205-934-8130 or nikles@uab.edu or Cindy Willingham, UAB Department of Physics, 205-975-9430 or ciwillin@uab.edu.