About David Byrum

He currently is teaching high school physics, and two community college courses: "General Chemistry II" (CHM 152) and "Fundamentals of Chemistry (CHM 130). His enjoys developing curriculum materials stressing "active-learning," individual responsibility and technology. He says that he spends way too much time "playing" on his computer, but also says that it sure is fun!

His wife is also a high school teacher in math, and his son has a degree in accounting and is a tennis pro in Northern California.

Articles

Goals

Through this feature, high school teachers from around the world open their classrooms and share their philosophies, lessons, teaching techniques, knowledge, and personal experiences with others.

Mission Statement

Since this column is atypical in that its focus is far broader than is usual, potential authors are highly encouraged to contact the editor with their ideas even if they have not formally expressed their thoughts in written form. Realizing that the publishing process is often foreign to secondary school teachers, advice can be provided to help focus the article's possible content, to provide information in regard to the proper method of preparing a manuscript for review, to assist in the critiquing and revising of the manuscript both before and after it is reviewed, and to inform authors of how the reviewing process is conducted. The nature of this column allows for a wider range of writing styles than one might normally expect to see in a scholarly journal.

Secondary school teaching can often present a different atmosphere, a different set of challenges, and a different set of experiences than may be found at other levels. Journal readers at the secondary, university, middle school, and elementary school levels can learn and benefit from the knowledge and experiences of others, and the "View" column is the venue through which these experiences can be shared.

Articles Published

Final Analysis - Rethinking an Age-Old Practice by Robert Becker; p816 (Sep 1995).

Transmuted Labs by Roger Plumsky; p451 (May 1996).

Using Physics Principles in the Teaching of Chemistry by Warren Gulden; p771 (Aug 1996).

Stoogiometry: A Cognitive Approach to Teaching Stoichiometry by Carla R. Krieger; p306 (Mar 1997).

On Laboratory Work by Dave Olney; p1343 (Nov 1997).

Integrating High School Chemistry with Environmental Studies and Research by Jack Randall; p1409 (Dec 1997).

Toward More Performance Evaluation in Chemistry by Sharon L. Rasp; p64 (Jan 1998).

The Convergent Evolution of a Chemistry Project: Using Laboratory Posters as a Platform for Web Page Construction by Sally Ann Rigeman; p727 (Jun 1998).

A pHorseshoe by Roger Plumsky; p935 (Jul 1999).

Investigating the Cuprammonium Rayon Process in a High School Laboratory by Lauren J. Pickard and Mary E. Harris; p1512 (Nov 1999).

Let's Talk about It! Using a Graded Discussion Procedure to Make Chemistry Real by Amy Roediger; p1305 (Oct 2000).

Curriculum Alignment Projects: Toward Developing a Need to Know by K. David Pinkerton; p198 (Feb 2001).

Teaching Chemistry in the Block Schedule by Sally Craven; p488 (Apr 2001).

What Should We Teach in High School Chemistry? by Kelly Morgan Deters; p1153 (Oct 2003).

Putting A Human Face on Equilibrium by Neil Glickstein; p391 (Mar 2005).

The Match Game: A Discovery of the Laboratory Equipment Used in High School Chemistry by Stacey L. Greengold; p547 (Apr 2005).

Student Opinions Regarding Inquiry-Based Labs by Kelly Morgan Deters; p1178 (Aug 2005).

A Diaper a Day and What's Going on with Gaviscon?: Two Lab Activities Focusing on Chemical Bonding Concepts by Brett Criswell, p574 (Apr 2006).

Nomenclature Made Practical: Student Discovery of the Nomenclature Rules by Michael C. Wirtz, Joan Kaufmann, and Gary Hawley, p595 (Apr 2006).

What Are We Teaching in High School Chemistry? by Kelly Morgan Deters; p1492 (Oct 2006).

A Spoonful of C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ Makes the Chemistry Go Down: Candy Motivations in the High School Chemistry Classroom by Fanny K. Ennever; p615 (Apr 2007).

Connecting Acids and Bases with Encapsulation… and Chemistry with Nanotechnology by Brett Criswell; p1136 (Jul 2007).

Mistake of Having Students be Mendeleev for Just a Day by Brett Criswell; p1140 (Jul 2007).

Integrating Advanced High School Chemistry Research with Organic Chemistry and Instrumental Methods of Analysis by Brian J. Kennedy; p393 (Mar 2008).

Teaching Avogadro's Hypothesis and Helping Students to See the World Differently by Brett Criswell; p1372 (Oct 2008).