Applications will be
reviewed on a rolling basis.
Apply early for best
consideration! Prep Phase
openings available for 25
participants.
Choose from 10 inquirybased Laboratory
Experiments including:
Forgery Forensics
Calorimetry in a Coffee
Cup
“pHizzy” Kinetics
Tummy-settling
Titrations
APPLY NOW PROGRAM
LIMITED TO 25
PARTICIPANTS
More details and the
application are available
online at:
TQC Program at UMBC
Teacher Quality
in Chemistry
Program
at UMBC
CNMS – UC 116
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: 410-455-2271
Fax: 410-455-5831
Email: sutphin@umbc.edu
Infusing “Real-World”
Chemistry into the
Secondary Classroom
tqc.umbc.edu
A Professional Development
Program for Maryland Secondary
School Chemistry Teachers
TQC is made possible by the Maryland
Higher Education Commission and the
UMBC College of Natural and
Mathematical Sciences, and the
UMBC Departments of Chemistry &
Biochemistry and Education
Teacher Quality in Chemistry Program at UMBC
UMBC is now accepting applications for
the sixth year of its comprehensive, fourphase teacher professional development
program in chemistry. TQC is designed
to help participants to become more
highly qualified through face-to-face
and online instruction with UMBC
Chemistry faculty.
Event Schedule*
PHASE ONE
Preparatory Instruction
March 31 (orientation and introduction), April
7, 14, 21, 28 and May 5, 2015 - 5:00 to 8:00
p.m. with supplemental online exercises and
meetings
Participants learn and practice inquirybased teaching strategies and work with
the TQC education coordinator to
develop specific classroom
applications for course concepts and
procedures.
PHASE TWO
"Hands-On" 10-day Summer
Chemistry Practicum
July 6 – 17, 2015, weekends excluded - 9:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily
•
Workshop experiences, which feature
hands-on instruction and practice
teaching sessions, are designed to be
easily repeated by participants in their
classrooms and to reinforce teacher
knowledge of chemistry topics.
PHASE THREE
Follow-up Reflection Session
November 13, 2015 - 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Option 1: Up to $2,287.50
from attendance-based
stipends ($150/full day or
$75/afternoon) OR
•
Option 2: Four graduate
credits in Chemistry and free
tuition/application fees upon
satisfactory completion of
program
•
Both options include: Free
course books, lab notebooks,
and manuals,
•
Free campus housing during
the ten-day summer session
to a limited number of
participants, and
•
Opportunity to apply for
limited child-care
supplements
Participants will leave the program with
at least four new and complete lesson
plans that conform to Maryland Core
Learning Goals and the Next Generation
Science Standards.
Guided self-evaluations using UMBC
Department of Education resources help
to ensure that participants master new
laboratory and pedagogy skills and can
successfully implement the lesson plans
they have developed for their
classrooms.
Benefits:
PHASE FOUR
Scientific Communication Sessions –
Poster work sessions scheduled individually December 2015 and February 2016
Classroom Visits - scheduled individually
during September - December 2015
TQC Share Our Success Saturday
Poster Session
March 5, 2016 - 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
(Snow date, March 26, 2016)
*Tentative dates – please note that the schedule may
be adjusted if LEA school year end dates change.
Visit tqc.umbc.edu to apply using the new online application!