Empowering Pre-service Teachers and Students With Environmental Health Research

为职前教师和学生提供环境健康研究的能力

• 批准号: 9267542
• 负责人: CRAIG A. BERG
• 金额: $ 27.02万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-01 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9267542
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Federal CoSTEM Strategic Plan aims to prepare 100,000 excellent new K-12 STEM teachers by 2020 and to greatly increase the number of U.S. youth who have an authentic STEM experience each year prior to completing high school. The National Institutes of Health set forth complementary goals to (i) enhance workforce development (education) that stimulates biomedical, behavioral and clinical research; (ii) increase diversity of the research community; and (iii) increase understanding of health related research by the general population. The proposed SEPA project addresses these objectives within the context of the Next Generation Science Standards. Its integrated set of activities is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to infuse guided inquiry/research and research communication into high school life science courses and are coupled to societal environmental health issues of relevance to students. Using workshops and other activities, pre-service teachers will gain research experience with environmental health scientists and learn the content of several fully developed experiment modules that utilize live organisms as biomedical models. The modules engage students in the investigation of impacts of environmental/life-style chemicals on fundamental biological processes. Then, the pre-service teachers will be paired with master teachers to implement the modules during their student teaching experiences with specific emphasis on working within the Milwaukee Public School System and other districts with many disadvantaged students. Research must also be communicated. Thus, the modules extend the scientific process to informal discussion with peers, the literature, writing and reviewing scientific papers, making research posters, and attending a student scientific conference. In order to offer pre-service teachers and their students this rigorous program, all it components are strongly supported by the SEPA team, including responding to the variety of issues that inevitably arise as laboratory research enters the classroom. This can be done because the SEPA team includes knowledgeable and experienced scientists and science educators. The following specific aims summarize the goals in delivering this program of scientific, environmental health inquiry to pre-service teachers and students: (1) To prepare 100 pre-service teachers to lead students in guided inquiry across the scientific process (experimentation to communication) using special experiment modules in the context of a summer workshop, year-long work with team scientists, and practice teaching with master teacher mentors. (2) To provide pre-service teachers with environmental health research background knowledge. (3) To give pre-service teachers and classrooms year-round support to implement the program. (4) To introduce 5,000 high school students to scientific research and communication through experiment modules, on-line resources, research papers and posters, and a Student Research Conference. (5) To focus the program on the Milwaukee Public School System and its large disadvantaged and underrepresented student population. (6) To evaluate the program fully including a comparison group method.

 描述（由申请人提供）：联邦 CoSTEM 战略计划的目标是到 2020 年培养 100,000 名优秀的新 K-12 STEM 教师，并增加每年在完成高中学业之前获得真实 STEM 体验的美国青少年人数。卫生研究院制定了补充目标：(i) 加强劳动力发展（教育），以促进生物医学、行为和临床研究；(ii) 增加研究界的多样性； (iii) 提高公众对健康相关研究的理解。拟议的 SEPA 项目在下一代科学标准的背景下实现了这些目标，其综合活动旨在为职前教师注入指导性探究/研究做好准备。将研究交流纳入高中生命科学课程，并结合与学生相关的社会环境健康问题，通过研讨会和其他活动，职前教师将获得与环境健康科学家的研究经验，并学习几个完全开发的实验模块的内容。利用活体作为生物医学模型。在调查环境/生活方式化学物质对基本生物过程的影响之后，职前教师将与大师级教师配对，在他们的学生教学经验中实施这些模块，特别是在密尔沃基公立学校系统内的工作。因此，这些模块还必须将科学过程扩展到与同行的非正式讨论、撰写和审查科学论文、制作研究海报以及参加科学学生会议。为职前教师及其学生提供这一严格的计划，所有这些各个组成部分都得到了 SEPA 团队的大力支持，包括应对实验室研究进入课堂时不可避免地出现的各种问题。之所以能够做到这一点，是因为 SEPA 团队包括知识渊博、经验丰富的科学家和科学教育工作者。以下具体目标总结了这些目标。在向职前教师和学生提供这一科学、环境健康探究计划时： (1) 准备 100 名职前教师，利用特定的实验模块，引导学生在整个科学过程（实验到交流）中进行引导式探究为期一年的夏季研讨会与团队科学家合作，与名师导师一起实践教学 (2) 为职前教师提供环境健康研究背景知识 (3) 为职前教师和课堂提供全年支持，以实施该计划。 ) 通过实验模块、在线资源、研究论文和海报以及学生研究会议向 5,000 名高中生介绍科学研究和交流 (5) 该计划重点关注密尔沃基公立学校系统及其大量弱势群体和群体。学生群体代表性不足。 (6) 对方案进行全面评估，包括对照组方法。