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Marietta, GA 30060

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As a student in teacher education and as professional science teachers and mathematics teachers, you’ll want to know about these resources:

Chemistry Education

Teach Chemistry!

There are atoms, and there is void. All else is opinion.

--Democritus, 460-370 B.C.E.

As a SPSU chemistry teacher, you will learn to do the following:

Use the state and national curricula to give the students the foundational understanding of chemistry needed in a modern world ;
Guide students to understand the material world, and how and why it fits together;
Get them to work in teams;
Show them how to collect data using technology, and how to analyze those data in graphs and tables;
Get them to see the world as scientists see it;
Challenge them to apply concepts and solve problems.

Talk to someone in Teacher Education to evaluate your transcripts to determine what you need to take to become a teacher.

List of Required Courses (pdf)

Check out these websites:

American Chemical Society (ACS) & their links to teaching