A teacher learns : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)

Abstract

This project contains a pre-service teacher's perspective of her summer research project, working for a weeklong conference for in-service high school chemistry teachers. The work contains a narrative account of the workshop, including reflection on what she has learned. The work also includes a summary of her research on laboratory in the classroom. Workshop evaluations from the in-service Chemistry teachers were also analyzed. From this data, suggestions for future in-service high school chemistry teacher workshops are formulated. One fmal reflection is made applying her knowledge from the workshop to her student teaching experience.