{"id":252,"date":"2016-10-30T08:52:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T06:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/?page_id=252"},"modified":"2021-05-09T17:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:34:49","slug":"the-national-center-for-chemistry-teachers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/?page_id=252","title":{"rendered":"The National Center for Chemistry Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>The National Center for Chemistry Teachers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Leading team<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?person_id=45476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Debora Ivana Marchak Ben Hamo, (Didi)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/st\/blonder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Ron Blonder<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Project members<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?person_id=60241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vered Adler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?person_id=37770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sara Akons<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ziva Bar-Dov<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?person_id=60310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hagit Levy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?person_id=2311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Shelly Livne<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/ScienceTeaching\/Mamlok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Rachel Mamlok-Naaman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?person_id=4569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Malka Yayon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>The National Center for Chemistry Teachers is designed to address the professional development of chemistry teachers, and ad hoc tasks at the request of the chemistry superintendent.<br \/>\nIn order to achieve these goals, the center focuses on the following activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Development and maintenance of the Teachers&#8217; Center website, including the Center&#8217;s Facebook page<\/li>\n<li>Planning an annual conference<\/li>\n<li>Developing learning materials<\/li>\n<li>Publication of the journal &#8220;Al-Chimia&#8221; in an online edition<\/li>\n<li>Professional development of teachers in various courses, e.g., assimilation of developments carried out at the center, experience in building rubrics for developed materials, or integration of art in the teaching of chemistry;<\/li>\n<li>Promotion of the chemistry profession through motivational projects, e.g., continued promotion of escape room initiatives, construction of puzzles for integration in various teaching topics<\/li>\n<li>Customized instruction to promote student understanding and to address difficulties that are raised during the teaching and learning process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The activities of the National Center for Chemistry Teachers are based on a continues research on chemistry teachers PD that is conducted in the group for decades.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Administration<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=Shani+Motsa&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shani Motsa <\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Links for further reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/chemistry\/projects\/briha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The website of the chemistry group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"mailto:Malka.yayon@weizmann.ac.il\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span lang=\"en\">Contact<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Center for Chemistry Teachers<br \/>\nLeading team<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Debora Ivana Marchak Ben Hamo, (Didi)<br \/>\nProf. Ron Blonder<\/p>\n<p>Project members<\/p>\n<p>Vered Adler<br \/>\nSara Akons<br \/>\nZiva Bar-Dov<br \/>\nHagit Levy<br \/>\nDr. Shelly Livne<br \/>\nDr. Rachel Mamlok-Naaman<br \/>\nDr. Malka Yayon<\/p>\n<p>Summary<br \/>\nThe National Center for Chemistry Teachers is designed to address the professional development of chemistry teachers, and ad hoc tasks at the request of the chemistry superintendent.<br \/>\nIn order to achieve these goals, the center focuses on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252\/revisions\/2576"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}