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Chemistry Olympiad Exposure Camp
Chemistry Olympiad Exposure
Camp
November 21 - 24, 2016
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National
Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. The
broad goals of the Centre are to promote equity and excellence in
science and mathematics education from primary school to
undergraduate college level. It is India's nodal centre for Olympiad
programmes in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy.
We are happy to invite applications from Junior college/high
school teachers (teaching at X to XII class), involved in teaching
CHEMISTRY for the exposure camp to Chemistry Olympiad that will be
held at HBCSE from November 21-24, 2016. Only the teachers
employed in schools that are recognized by state and central
government education boards are eligible to apply.
Originally,
Olympiad is a movement which started in erstwhile USSR region with a
very strong educational goal of exposing pre-university students to
what is meaningful and challenging about a given subject so that they
may be inspired to pursue the subject. The program has evolved in
form of competitions involving challenging theoretical and
experimental problems that touch the frontiers of the subject but are
solvable by a senior secondary school student.
On the
surface, the olympiad program is a challenge for the students, but if
one looks into its dynamics, it is infact a challenging and unique
opportunity for the teaching community of the given discipline. It
has enriched our conceptual understanding of chemistry and its
pedagogy as it requires our engagement with the subject at
historical, philosophical, practical, and conceptual level.
We
invite you to this exposure camp to share our learning and help you
gain experience of this process. The exposure camp will consist of
pedagogical sessions related to concepts in chemistry that are an
integral part of the experimental and theoretical components of the
Chemistry Olympiad. The participating teachers will be sent link of
some of the past Olympiad problems. After studying the problems, each
participant would solve at least one problem before coming to the
camp. During the camp, we would discuss your reflections on the
problem solving process and how problem designing process can be
modified for meaningful assessment.
If you are interested
in participating in this camp, please send the completed application
form (which can be downloaded with a link at the bottom of this page)
to us on or before October 3, 2016. The list of selected teacher
participants will be uploaded on our website by October 10, 2016.
All the participants will be eligible for to and fro travel
fare as per the entitlement (maximum only upto II AC). During the
workshop Tea/snacks/Lunch will be provided to all participants.
Accommodation will be provided to the outstation participants in
HBCSE guest house.
Click here for Chemistry Olympiad Exposure
Camp Application Form