Teachers FIRST: From Interesting Research to Scientific Teaching

教师第一：从有趣的研究到科学的教学

• 批准号: 8690987
• 负责人: Tim M. Herman
• 金额: $ 25.25万
• 依托单位: MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8690987
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Teachers FIRST project (From Interesting Research to Scientific Teaching) aims to provide high school teachers with the background and tools to go beyond the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (DNA -> RNA -> Protein) in their teaching, and to engage their students in meaningful discussions of genomic science and its implications for personalized health care. In the first phase of this project, teachers will be introduced to a series of molecular stories of current research that illustrate how recent advances in technology are driving the development of personalized genomic medicine. A broad range of innovative, student-centered instructional materials will be created in this project, including (i) cellular landscapes that transition students' thinking from the cellular to the molecular world, (ii) a central dogma construction kit, and (iii) physical models and computer-based (Jmol) explorations of specific proteins. Teachers will then receive explicit training in the use of these materials to connect the central elements of each molecular story of current research to the basic concepts of chemistry and biology that are taught at the high school level. In the second phase of this project, teachers will be introduced to the principles of scientific teaching - and challenged to apply the same experimental rigor to their classrooms that researchers apply in their laboratories. Teams of teachers will be assisted in the development of individualized research plans in which the impact of implementing the project's instructional materials in their classrooms will be studied. Beginning in a summer workshop and continuing into the implementation of these shared research plans in their classrooms, teachers will be encouraged to become active participants in a professional community of educators - committed to documenting the impact of their classroom innovations on student learning and to sharing the results of that education research with others. In the final phase of this project, the molecular stories and related instructional materials will e disseminated to a national audience of high school students and their teachers though a Protein Modeling event in the Science Olympiad competition. More than 9,000 students in 48 states will be exposed to stories of personalized genomic medicine as they construct physical models of proteins that play key roles in molecular stories.

描述（由申请人提供）：教师的第一个项目（从有趣的研究到科学教学）旨在为高中教师提供背景和工具，以超越分子生物学教条（DNA-> RNA->蛋白质），并在其教学中吸引他们的学生对基因组科学的有意义讨论及其对个性化卫生保健的含义。在该项目的第一阶段中，将向教师介绍一系列当前研究的分子故事，以说明技术最近的进步如何推动个性化基因组医学的发展。该项目将创建广泛的创新，以学生为中心的教学材料，包括（i）将学生从细胞到分子世界转变的蜂窝景观，（ii）中央教条构建套件，以及（iii）物理模型和基于计算机的基于计算机模型（JMOL）（JMOL）（JMOL）探索特定蛋白质。然后，老师将接受明确的培训 使用这些材料将当前研究的每个分子故事的中心元素与高中一级教授的化学和生物学的基本概念联系起来。 在该项目的第二阶段中，将向教师介绍科学教学的原则，并挑战将同一实验性的严格性应用于研究人员在实验室中应用的课堂。将协助建立个性化研究计划的教师团队，在这些研究计划中，将研究在课堂上实施该项目的教学材料的影响。从夏季研讨会开始，并继续在课堂上实施这些共享的研究计划，将鼓励教师积极参与教育工作者的专业社区 - 致力于记录其课堂创新对学生学习的影响，并与他人分享该教育研究的结果。 在该项目的最后阶段，分子故事和相关的教学材料将通过科学奥林匹克竞赛中的蛋白质建模活动传播给全国性的高中生及其老师。在48个州中有9,000多名学生将接触个性化基因组医学的故事，因为他们构建了在分子故事中起关键作用的蛋白质的物理模型。