Teaching chemistry in Hong Kong classrooms

Conference Theme: Building an international platform for exchange between scientists and science educatorsSymposia Sessions and Poster Session 2 - Symposium 1: no. SS-01This symposium aims at demonstrating the role of multiple representations, namely, the marco, submicro and symbolic representations, in daily chemistry teaching in Hong Kong. The symposium is research-informed and practice-oriented. By being research-informed, the papers will report some practices of Hong Kong chemistry teachers in the light of current chemical education literature – particularly on the role of the triplet relationship (Gilbert & Treagust, 2009) and the role of visualization in chemistry teaching and learning (Gilbert, Reiner & Nakhleh, 2008). By being practice-oriented, these papers will report how ideas in the literature are realized in a context in which there is a prescribed official curriculum for all students, curriculum time is limited while the content is massive, textbooks predominate students’ expectation of how they are taught, all students will take a high stake school-leaving public examination in which teachers are, in one way of another, held accountable for the ...published_or_final_versio