Summary
Peer-Led Team Learning
is an innovative model in science education. Student-leaders (peers) guide the activities of small groups of students in weekly Workshop meetings. The students work through challenging problems that are designed to be solved cooperatively. The peer leaders are trained to ensure that the students are actively and productively engaged with the material and with the each other. This methodology offers a number of educational opportunities: the supportive format encourages questions and discussions that lead to conceptual understanding; students learn to work in teams and to communicate more effectively; peer leaders learn teaching and group management skills.
Two of the five books in this series provide students, instructors, learning specialists and peer leaders with all of the materials they need to successfully implement this new teaching methodology. Three other books provide specific materials for different introductory chemistry courses. This book, Workshops for Organic Chemistry, is designed exclusively for instructors and provides Workshop problems that cover the two-semester/three-quarter curriculum.
Features
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Comprehensive—Contains material designed for the complete, two semester/three-quarter organic curriculum.
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Instructors will find materials that cover the core curriculum of the typical organic course.
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Versatile—The material is organized into units that correspond to the chapters found in most organic textbooks.
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All instructors can assign group problems from this book, and they can use the book as a source of problems for the duration of their course. There is enough material in this book for a full-year course.
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Instructors can use this material no matter which organic textbook they use.
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Cumulative review problems
are included (three sets). These problems require that students use all the skills they've learned in the proceeding weeks.
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These problems force students to synthesize multiple concepts and discourage them from compartmentalizing the material.
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Extensively class tested—The problems in the workbook have been tested on students at a variety of institutions and fine-tuned for efficacy and accuracy.
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The material in this workbook forms a strong base of material that can be used as is and at once.
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Instructor Website—Allows constant updating and provision of additional problems.
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As new problems are developed and as material is refined, users of this book are able to access a database of this material over the Internet.
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Commentary—Each Workshop is accompanied by a Guide.
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Explains the structure and purpose of the Workshop and provides tips about leading the Workshop.
Table Of Contents
Preface to the Peer-Led Team Learning Series.
Introduction to Workshop for Organic Chemistry.
Workshops:
Structure: Functional Groups. Structure: Bonding. Structure: Properties: Acids and Bases. Conformational Stereochemistry: Alkanes and Cycloalkanes. Alkenes: Electrophilic Addition Mechanism: Carbocations. Review. Alkenes: Reactions. Alkynes: Synthesis. Synthesis. Chirality. Alkyl Halides and Tosylates: Mechanism I. Alkyl Halides and Tosylates: Mechanism II. Alkyl Halides and Alcohols: Synthesis. Review. Dienes: Allylic Systems: Diels-Alder. Aromaticity. Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution. Aldehydes and Ketones: Synthesis and Nucleophilic Additions. Aldehydes and Ketones: Enol/Enolate Chemistry. Synthesis and Reactions of ß-Dicarbonyl Compounds. Carboxylic Acids. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution. Amines. Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution. Phenols. Carbohydrates. Review.
Students Supplements
Peer-Led Team Learning: A Guidebook (ISBN: 0130288055)
Peer-Led Team Learning: On Becoming a Peer Leader (ISBN: 0130408115)
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