Biography: Stephen Prilliman, Harding Charter Preparatory High School, Oklahoma City

Stephen Prilliman teaches Honors and AP Chemistry at Harding Charter Preparatory High School in Oklahoma City and is an occasional adjunct professor of chemistry at Oklahoma City Community College where he teaches General Chemistry.  This summer he will be a reader for the AP Chemistry Exam.  Stephen received his B.A. in Chemistry from Rice University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.  In 2003 he left the research field to help found a charter school that believes all students, regardless of prior academic performance can, and must, take and succeed in AP classes.  Stephen was one of the first high school teachers in the nation to employ a highly successful method of guided inquiry called "POGIL".   Stephen's primary goals in chemical education include dissemination of the POGIL method at the high school level and creating environmentally friendly "green" labs for high schools. 

Course Description: AP Chemistry

This course, for both new and experienced teachers, will focus on effective strategies for teaching AP Chemistry with particular emphasis on the use of guided inquiry in the classroom and laboratory setting.  The course will also discuss ways to improve the laboratory component of the course; the use of technology in AP Chemistry; and a review of important chemistry concepts especially equilibrium this year's national topic of emphasis, thermodynamics.  If they have them, participants should bring goggles, a lab coat and a TI-83 or 84 calculator.

Updated 2/5/08