BEST Science! - Bioscience Enrichment for Students and Teachers

最好的科学！

• 批准号: 8693042
• 负责人: JAWED ALAM
• 金额: $ 25.11万
• 依托单位: OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-17 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8693042
• 关键词: Accountability; Administrator; Adoption; Area; Bioinformatics; Biological Sciences; Biology; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Clinic; Commit; Communities; Comparative Study; Critical Thinking; DNA; DNA amplification; Development; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Environment; Equipment; Evaluation; Exercise; Faculty; Faculty Workshop; Family; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Health Sciences; Health Services Research; Healthcare; High School Faculty; High School Student; Hurricane; Institution; Laboratories; Lead; Learning; Learning Module; Louisiana; Low income; Measures; Mentors; Mind; Minority; Molecular Biology; Molecular Genetics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Population; Problem Solving; Randomized Controlled Trials; Reagent; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Design; Resources; Schools; Science; Scientist; Secondary Schools; Series; Students; Teacher Professional Development; Technology; Testing; Training; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vocation; base; career; design; experience; gel electrophoresis; graduate student; instrument; interest; literate; programs; research study; science education; teacher; urban area

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Greater New Orleans area is the setting for an unprecedented experiment in education reform. This effort is characterized by an influx of reform-minded administrators and teachers, enthusiastic adoption of the public charter school concept, increased accountability and parental options, and intensification of community involvement. This environment provides a unique and attractive opportunity for testing new ideas in curriculum development and delivery. The National Institutes of Health has developed a series of educational modules based on scientific discoveries from NIH-sponsored research. These units are designed to supplement existing elementary and secondary life science curricula at both the state and local levels and are consistent with National Science Education Standards. The supplements developed by teachers, scientists and curriculum experts, and field-tested nationally by teachers, "promote active and collaborative learning and are inquiry- based to help students develop problem-solving strategies and critical thinking." The NIH modules do not include hands-on laboratory exercises and no provisions are made for training teachers in the underlying concepts and technologies of molecular and cellular biology and molecular genetics. This application proposes a comprehensive program - BEST Science! - to provide Bioscience Enrichment for Students and Teachers. BEST Science! is a partnership between Ochsner Clinic Foundation, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and several local school districts The long-term objective of this partnership is to advance an interest in, and understanding of, biomedical research and health sciences by New Orleans area high school students, particularly underrepresented minorities. The ultimate goal is to stimulate further education and vocation in these areas. The general mechanism proposed to achieve this goal is to produce and implement summer professional development workshops for biology teachers and then provide the necessary resources for them to deploy the curriculum in their classrooms during the academic year. The core of the workshop curriculum will be select NIH modules supplemented with complementary laboratory exercises utilizing technologies such as DNA transformation, PCR amplification and gel electrophoresis. The laboratory units will be created using existing modules, developed by SEPA-funded programs such as CityLab and Regional Biotech, as templates. Research scientists and graduate students from Ochsner and LSUHSC will participate in the workshops. Academic year support will include provision of reagent kits, equipment loans and mentoring by program faculty, graduate students, and Lead Teachers who have experience with the curriculum. Participating teachers, who must commit for one year to all aspects of the program, will have the option of carrying out the laboratory exercises in their classroom or in a dedicated student laboratory on the Ochsner campus. By providing the necessary training and resources, BEST Science! will help incorporate the NIH modules into the local curricula and fulfill the original intent of the NIH program.

描述（由申请人提供）：大新奥尔良地区是前所未有的教育改革实验的场所。这一努力的特点是大量具有改革意识的管理人员和教师的涌入、公立特许学校概念的热情采用、问责制和家长选择的增加以及社区参与的加强。这种环境为测试课程开发和交付的新想法提供了独特且有吸引力的机会。美国国立卫生研究院根据 NIH 资助的研究的科学发现开发了一系列教育模块。这些单元旨在补充州和地方各级现有的中小学生命科学课程，并符合国家科学教育标准。这些补充材料由教师、科学家和课程专家开发，并经过教师在全国范围内的实地测试，“促进主动和协作学习，以探究为基础，帮助学生发展解决问题的策略和批判性思维。” NIH 模块不包括实验室实践练习，也没有为教师提供分子和细胞生物学以及分子遗传学基本概念和技术的培训。 该应用程序提出了一个综合计划 - BEST Science！ - 为学生和教师提供生物科学丰富课程。最好的科学！是奥克斯纳诊所基金会、路易斯安那州立大学健康科学中心和几个当地学区之间的合作伙伴关系。这种伙伴关系的长期目标是提高新奥尔良地区高中生对生物医学研究和健康科学的兴趣和理解，特别是代表性不足的少数群体。最终目标是促进这些领域的进一步教育和职业发展。为实现这一目标而提出的总体机制是为生物教师举办和实施夏季专业发展研讨会，然后为他们在学年期间在课堂上部署课程提供必要的资源。研讨会课程的核心将是精选的 NIH 模块，并辅以利用 DNA 转化、PCR 扩增和凝胶电泳等技术的补充实验室练习。实验室单元将使用由国家环境保护局资助的项目（例如 CityLab 和 Regional Biotech）开发的现有模块作为模板来创建。来自 Ochsner 和 LSUHSC 的研究科学家和研究生将参加研讨会。学年支持将包括提供试剂盒、设备贷款以及由项目教师、研究生和具有课程经验的首席教师提供的指导。参与该计划的教师必须在一年内致力于该计划的各个方面，他们可以选择在自己的教室或奥克斯纳校区的专门学生实验室进行实验室练习。通过提供必要的培训和资源，BEST Science！将有助于将 NIH 模块纳入当地课程，实现 NIH 项目的初衷。