Between 1999 and 2010, the Chemistry Department at Illinois State University grew its chemistry teacher education program from 7 undergraduate students to over 70 students. The graduate program went from zero students in chemical education to graduating more than 10 in the traditional research-based MS program.  Online development of graduate chemical education courses, have raised exposure and competence among 500 science teachers across the country. All this occurred while maintaining high accreditation standards of ACE, NCATE, and CAEP, and high quality in the traditional BS and MS programs in chemistry.  This presentation will describe some of the strategies involved and one model of how this was accomplished.

Patterns of growth in chemistry teacher education at Illinois State University

247th National Meeting (2014)

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