Teacher training teaching methods

Homerton was the only one of the early teachers training colleges to teach chemistry,31 and this, largely a result of Hartle. It was at Homerton that Hartle penned her attack on the domestic science movement (see Chap. 1). Awarded a Mary Ewart Travelling Scholarship for 1915/1916, she spent the year in the United States studying experimental methods at American schools and training colleges, observations she published in the Times Educational Supplement and elsewhere. 

Bates also reported that some kinds of inquiry-oriented laboratory activities appeared to be better than lecture/demonstration or verification labs for teaching the process of inquiry. However, he warned that teachers needed to be skilled in inquiry teaching methods in order to derive this benefit. He noted that specific inquiry training should be provided for students over extended periods because students need both time and guidance to become comfortable with the new methods and expectations. 

For the first issue, related to the summative assessment, the same gaps in teachers education that affect teaching methods applied within classrooms also affect the assessment strategies. Teachers without training tend to reproduce traditional strategies of teaching and assessment. In this way, like any other... 

Boerhaave set the example for the caste of the savante-chimiste (as the French liked to call the elite breed of philosophically minded chemists) or the philosophical chemists (as the English would have it). The ability to scan a wide range of literature, not limited to chemistry, and to shape the problem and theory domains of general significance set this elite brand of chemists apart from ordinary apothecaries and physicians who were concerned primarily with more effective remedies. As an influential medical teacher, Boerhaave s chemical teachings found a broad audience in France, contributing to the transformation of chemical didactics. At a time when the French didactic tradition was at a low ebb, Boerhaave utilized his scholarly training and inclination as a methodical reader to... 

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