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Professional development articles
Selected articles from Education in Chemistry. Discover new ideas for teaching tricky topics.
Featured articles
Microscale makes teachers (and learners) mighty confident
Discover how CPD leads to improved practical skills and confidence for early career and trainee teachers
Make subject-specific professional development stick
5 ways to make CPD effective and long-lasting in your science department
Strengthen your teaching practice with targeted CPD
Discover why subject knowledge always packs a punch in the classroom
How to get your post-16 students to manage their workload effectively
Take a no-nonsense approach guaranteed to help your learners smash coursework targets
Confessions of an examiner
Exam marking veteran Kristy Turner shares the joys and challenges of it all – and why it matters
Overcome tricky classroom scenarios with handy phrases
Be ready to face any teaching challenge with these effective teacher-tested phrases
Successful strategies for sequencing knowledge
Discover how to effectively develop your students’ knowledge and skills by sequencing practical activities
Teaching alcohols at 14–16
Help students understand alcohols and their reactions
Teach electrolysis at 14–16
Encourage learners to be positive about electrolysis
Teaching rates of reaction and collision theory at 14–16
Help students tackle the topic of collision theory head on with these teaching strategies
How to teach aromatic chemistry at post-16
Tips and ideas to enhance your teaching of conjugated pi systems
How to teach solubility at 14–16
Concentrate learners’ minds on the key aspects of solutions
Teaching atom economy, percentage yield and green chemistry post-16
Use these tips and ideas for teaching these quantitative topics
How to teach atomic structure at 14–16
Strengthen your students’ grasp of the atom and electronic configurations with these models and strategies
Teaching isomerism at post-16
Ensure your students succeed with structural and stereoisomerism
Teaching conservation of mass at 14–16
Help learners master the concept of conservation of mass with these hands-on teaching ideas
How to teach Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution curves at post-16
Enhance learners’ knowledge and understanding of reaction kinetics and how to interpret graphs
How to teach structure and bonding of carbon at 14–16
Secure your learners’ understanding of this core topic with these teaching ideas