Teaching secondary chemistry

It was in a meeting at the RSC last summer that I announced I had been seriously considering a drastic rethink of the way I approached the teaching of bonding. Despite being prepared for my students' misconceptions and trying to address them with the excellent resources prepared by Keith Taber, I felt I was swimming against the tide from the moment ionic bonding was introduced.

Coincidentally, the new edition of Keith Taber's ASE science practice: teaching secondary chemistry had just been published and I was asked to take a look. The book is aimed as a general handbook to support the teaching of the subject. The list of authors reads like a who's who of chemistry education.