Duties and Responsibilities for Workshop Facilitators at the 27th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Purdue University
Workshops offered at each Biennial Conference on Chemical Education are a great way to share findings of effective practices for teaching and learning. Workshop leaders must understand the offering of a BCCE workshop is a service to the chemistry education community. We appreciate all of the work that the workshop facilitators do to prepare and deliver their workshop. For all of the good work our facilitators do, the recent BCCEs have experienced one or two difficulties. BCCE workshops are offered to enable our participants to experience hands-on activities and active learning. All workshop need to be hands-on activities and use active learning and/or guided inquiry methods of instruction 75% of the time. Only 25% of the time can be devoted to direct instruction – a lecture. Workshops may be lab-based, computer-based, hands-on problem solving, model building, modeling a specific pedagogy such as POGIL or SWH, case study, peer-discussions, etc.
Workshops Proposals
Proposals must be submitted online through the ACS Meeting Abstracts Programming System (MAPS). When your submission is complete, your proposal will be automatically forwarded to the workshop chair. The workshop chair will review your proposal and make a decision as to whether to accept, reject or amend it. If your proposal is accepted, then you are expected to deliver the workshop and register as a participant at the 27th BCCE.
Workshop Sessions
Workshops can be scheduled for 1.5 hour, 2 hour, 3 hour (half-day) or 6 hour (full-day) blocks Typically workshops sessions run 8am to 10:50am, and 2pm to 4:50pm. Please keep in mind that the workshops run concurrently with the symposia sessions. Workshop leaders who have a Saturday, Sunday or Monday workshop are strongly encouraged to arrive on campus Friday, July 17, 2020 in order to prepare for their workshop. Please indicate this information on the workshop proposal site.
Workshop Fees
The 27th BCCE charges participants a minimal fee of $10 for attending a workshop to cover the cost of extra janitorial services and processing fees associated with the workshops. Workshop leaders can add additional fees in $5 increments. The additional fee will cover costs of materials, supplies, printing and equipment used during the workshop by the participants. Expenses such as travel, lodging, food and BCCE registration fees incurred by the workshop leaders are not reimbursable.
Registration and Meeting Attendance are Required
Once your name and institution affiliation are listed on the 27th BCCE program (on-line and in print) you are obligated to present your workshop. The American Chemical Society requires all workshop leaders, co-leaders and presenters, to register for the BCCE, pay the registration fee and be physically present during the meeting. Facilitators are reminded that other chemistry educators come to the BCCE wanting to meet you and to learn all they can from your workshop.
Consequences of Not Presenting Your Workshop at the BCCE
Anyone who is listed as a facilitator of a workshop and who does not show at the conference and does not deliver their workshop (other than having an acceptable reason and being excused by the BCCE program chair), will be placed on a BCCE suspect list for two years. Such individuals will not be eligible to submit a workshop proposal for another BCCE until they agree to serve as a presider for a general paper session or poster session for a BCCE, an ACS regional meeting or ACS national meeting.