The Institute for Chemistry Literacy and Computational Science (ICLCS) is a program envisioned to prepare rural Illinois chemistry teachers for the 21st Century through content, computational tools and teaching methodology, virtual communities and leadership development to meet the following goals:
1. Strengthen high school teachers' and students' understanding of chemistry;
2. Increase students' and teachers' understanding of the application of chemistry to the world around them;
3. Instill in teachers a sense of confidence and competence about their ability to teach chemistry, with a special focus on using computational measures and visualizations of molecular behavior;
4. Enhance traditional high school chemistry curriculum to include new content and presentation methods;
5. Nurture a community among research faculty and high school teacher participants to enable year-round interaction; and
6. Create a cadre of leaders (Institute Fellows) who will become advocates for excellence in mathematics and science.
The Principal Investigator of Institute for Chemistry Literacy through Computational Science (ICLCS) is Thom Dunning.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// iclcs.uiuc.edu.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the ICLCS
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections as
well as the interactive calendar have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
Institute for Chemistry Literacy through Computational Science (ICLCS) project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups.
