Professional development courses for chemistry teachers
In terms of training of the next generation of researchers, 8 Masters, 7 PhDs and 1 pos-doc finished their projects in this period and 6 Masters, 7 PhD and 1 pos-docs are in progress specifically in the area of Chemical Education.
Title: “Batteries: Components, processes, difficulties and conceptions”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
Objective: To discuss the components of a stack and the processes involved in its operation, addressing the difficulties inherent in teaching this topic and the main concepts possessed by the students.
Duration: 5h
| Place | Date | Attending teachers |
|---|---|---|
| Board of Education - Leste 1 | 11/30/2018 | 32 |
| Board of Education - Leste 3 | 05/28/2018 | 15 |
| Board of Education - Leste 5 | 06/13/2018 | 17 |
| Board of Education - Zona Norte 1 | 06/15/2018 | 30 |
| Board of Education - Taboão da Serra | 11/22/2018 | 32 |
Title: “Chemistry through experimentation: proposals for teaching redox reactions”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
Objective: To offer knowledge about redox reactions, promoting reflections on experimentation in teaching and discussing the difficulties in teaching redox reactions.
Duration: 40h
| Place | Date | Attending teachers |
|---|---|---|
| Instituto de Química - USP-SP | 2018 | 38 |
Title: “Teaching of Electrolysis: Concepts, Concepts, Difficulties and Strategies”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
Objective: To promote reflections on electrolysis teaching discussing the teacher difficulties to approach the subject.
Duration: 40h
| Place | Date | Attending teachers |
|---|---|---|
| Board of Education - Zona Norte | Feb/2018 | 8 |
USP-School Meeting
Title: “Applied Electrochemistry”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
Objective: To offer knowledge on electrolysis, galvanic cells, electroanalytical applications and metal corrosion. Didactic resources were lectures, discussion, laboratory classes, exercise classes and text reading and discussion.
Duration: 40h
| Place | Date | Attending teachers |
|---|---|---|
| Board of Education - Zona Norte | January, 15-19, 2018 | 33 |
Title: “Chemistry through experimentation: proposals for the teaching of Oxirreduction Reaction”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
Objective: To provide the professional development of High School Chemistry teachers through a course focused on the continued professional development of teachers on the concept of oxirreduction reactions.
Duration: 36h
| Place | Date | Attending teachers |
|---|---|---|
| Board of Education - Zona Norte 2 – São Paulo – SP | 2016 | 13 |
Title: “Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
| Place | Date | Attending teachers |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | 2016 | 22 |
Title: “Supervised Internship in Chemistry Teaching”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
Objective: To enable the student to integrate pedagogical and conceptual aspects, related to teaching chemistry through internship activities in public schools, to improve design, implementation and evaluation of educational activities in view the pedagogical politics project and the reality of a given school training field, and to recognize, analyze and develop strategies for teacher-student and student-student interaction; systematically give opportunity to self-analysis and discussion of the student teaching experiences.
Date: 2015-2018
Title: “Resources for Chemistry Teaching, Curriculum and Planning”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
Objective: To evaluate the psychological basics and the processes of teaching and learning chemistry, analysis of instructional materials, and to develop educational programs in Chemistry teaching.
Date: 2015-2018
Title: “Resources for chemistry teaching II (Teaching and Activities)”
Instructor: Carmen Fernandez
Objective: To provide subsidies to the student teacher to be able to use experimental activities as a teaching resource and enable the development of actions in real teaching situations. Thus, the objective is to provide students with an instrument that allows them to know the various types of experimental activities, analyze their functions and adaptations to different educational realities; develop experimental activities based on theoretical and methodological assumptions; learn to plan and organize the physical space for the development of activities, considering educational aspects, safety and environmental.
Date: 2015-2018
Teachers Education: continuing education courses for in-service high school science teachers (a total of 35 in-service teachers were enrolled in a course on January, 2019 at USP-School course); pre-service teachers activities - an experiment class program was offered to circa 60 high school students from the public school Derville Allegreti in São Paulo-SP. The program consisted of four 60 minute experiments created and performed by a cohort of 20 undergrad students attending their pre-service teacher degree course. This a regular activity offered annually from August to December
LabVivo – it is a merging between extension and undergraduation course. It is a online, 8 h course for high school students from the public educational system. The course aim at debunking fake news. It is based on the "crossed formation pathways" strategy, in which undergrad students prepare the course as part of their initial teacher training. The program had 192 attendees in courses prepared by 51 undergraduate students on its past editions.
The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Summer Course is an annual program run by the Biochemistry Department at IQ-USP. It is a 80 h course for Brazilian undergraduate students and it is a showcase of the Biochemistry Dept labs and facilities while providing training on state of the art experimental research approaches. Graduate students create the course and act as teachers. The last edition enrolled 200 attendees.
Residência Pedagógica (RP) Chemistry sub-project funded by Capes. The RP aims to: encourage the training of higher-level teachers for basic education, leading the student-teachers to actively exercise the relationship between theory and professional teaching practice; and strengthen and expand the relationship between higher education institutions and public schools of basic education for the initial training of basic education teachers; and strengthen the role of education networks in the training of future teachers. The programs developed by RP are:
| Period of Course | Attending Students* | Attending Teachers* |
|---|---|---|
| Oct/2020 - Mar/2022 | 14 | 2 |
| Period of Course | Attending Students* | Attending Teachers* |
|---|---|---|
| Nov/2022 - Mar/2024 | 11 | 2 |
* Awarded CAPES scholarship
PED Brasil. We are participating in the PED Brasil (Programa de Especialização Docente), a teacher professional development program on Science and Mathematic education developed by the Lemann Center at Stanford University based on the principles and practices of the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP). We are developing a curriculum plan for a teacher training course that will be offered by 17 USP professors to secondary school teachers from 2022 onwards.
Other professional development courses
Title: “Introdução a Biologia Redox”
Instructor: Marilene Demasi
Objective: Introducing concepts of biology redox to undergraduate and post-graduate students, and researchers from several research fields.
| Place | Date | Attending Professionals |
|---|---|---|
| Instituto Butantan | July 2023 | 25 |
Title: “Hair Products - From Design to End Customer - I”
Instructor: Maurício Baptista
Objective: The course consists of practical and theoretical presential classes, given on Saturdays and Mondays, with evaluative activities and practical classes in the laboratory.
Duration: 100h
| Place | Date | Attending Professionals |
|---|---|---|
| Instituto de Química - USP-SP | Feb/2019-Jan/2020 | 20 |
Title: “Hair Products - From Design to End Customer - II”
Instructor: Maurício Baptista
Objective: The course consists of practical and theoretical classes, given on Mondays, with synchronous and asynchronous online classes, with evaluative activities and practical classes in the laboratory.
Duration: 100h
| Place | Date | Attending Professionals |
|---|---|---|
| Instituto de Química - USP-SP | Nov/2021-Jul/2022 | 12 |
Title: “Curso de Difusão em Química Cosmética - Modulo I. Métodos Analíticos em Cosmetologia - Princípios Básicos”
Instructor: Maurício Baptista
Objective: The course aims at teaching basic theoretical principles of cosmetic chemistry.
Duration: 15h
| Place | Date | Attending Professionals |
|---|---|---|
| Instituto de Química - USP | 03/22/2023–03/25/2023 | 45 |
Title: “Curso de Difusão em Química Cosmética - Modulo II. Química cosmética dos cabelos transformados em cor e forma”
Instructor: Maurício Baptista
Objective: The course aims at teaching cosmetic chemistry with focus on hair coloring.
Duration: 15h
| Place | Date | Attending Professionals |
|---|---|---|
| Instituto de Química - USP | 04/12/2023–04/15/2023 | To be defined |
Title: “Curso de Difusão em Química Cosmética - Modulo III. Química cosmética da pele exposta ao sol e ao envelhecimento”
Instructor: Maurício Baptista
Objective: The course aims at teaching cosmetic chemistry with focus on sun exposition and aging of skin.
Duration: 15h
| Place | Date | Attending Professionals |
|---|---|---|
| Instituto de Química - USP | 05/03/2023–05/06/2023 | To be defined |