In this episode, Mark talks with Deanna Cullen, about her work as a teacher, how she came to modeling, and how it changed her teaching. They talk about the work she is doing now with the Journal of Chemical Education and with ChemEdX, the Chemical Education Exchange. They also talk about Target Inquiry, a 2 1/2 year long professional development program which gives teachers the opportunity to do research and develop labs to build inquiry skills. They talk about summer conferences for chemistry teachers and the benefit of that kind of professional development.

Guests

Deanna Cullen is the High School Editor for ChemEd X the Chemical Education Exchange, Adjunct professor at Grand Valley State University, spent over 25 years teaching chemistry, science & biology - primarily high school - through June 2017. She is the former associate editor with the Journal of Chemical Education. For two years she was a chemistry laboratory technician. She regularly attends state, national and international science conferences. Deanna is passionate about supporting science teachers and working with authors.

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Highlights

[8:15] Deanna Cullen "One of the posts (on ChemEdX) that gets a lot of views during modeling instruction courses is one that Erica Posthuma posted about build-a-boat and developing culture in your classroom"

[28:55] Deanna Cullen "we teach students to be scientists. Scientists make observations, they analyze data and they form conclusions. And we know that scientists make further observations that will cause them to reanalyze and reformulate a conclusion. And that's what our students do in modeling instruction. So they're learning to be a scientist."

Resources

Ep 50 Transcript

Journal of Chemical Education

Chemical Education Exchange

Target Inquiry