Biotechnology Research Seminars for Leaders in Secondary School Science Education

这一教师增强项目将增加20高的专业知识 学校生物教师每年在生物技术领域， 生物学研究，解决问题和科学写作。 这些 20名教师将在为期6周的暑期后返回学校， 计划，以丰富他们的教学计划，提供服务 为同事提供经验，并在课程中发挥领导作用 改革和实验室发展。 教师将从 明尼苏达州、威斯康星州、 爱荷华州，北达科他州和南达科他州。 后续活动将有助于 教师在教学改革和领导方面 活动 被选中的教师在春季开会，考虑他们的夏季研究 项目与适当的大学教师。 项目计划 到夏天到来时已经发育了一部分 期间 夏天，除了做他们的项目，他们还参加了 关于当代生物学主题的研讨会，并开展活动， 他们自己的教室与研究活动和 研讨会等 此外，他们还将为在职人员制定大纲， 他们将开展的活动。 在学年中， 大学教职员会探访参加者的学校， 会议将在大学或其他适当的设置举行 促进教师的知识或报告研究成果。 该提案是高中荣誉研讨会的产物 教师在过去两年中。 PI有资格 进行该计划，作为一个研究生物学家，但也有事先 指导教师发展活动的经验。 对方工作人员 是大学里的生物学家 生物技术专家 来自私营部门的专家将担任演讲者和顾问。

This Teacher Enhancement project will increase the expertise of 20 high school biology teachers per year in the areas of biotechnology, biological research, problem solving and scientific writing. These twenty teachers will return to their schools, following a 6-week summer program, to enrich their instructional program, to provide inservice experiences for their colleagues, and to exert leadership in curriculum reform and laboratory development. Teachers will be selected from school districts in the upper midwestern states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota. Follow-up activities will assist the teachers in both their instructional modifications and leadership activities. Teachers selected meet in the spring to consider their summer research project with the appropriate college faculty. The project is planned and partially developed by the time they arrive for the summer. During the summer, in addition to working on their project, they attend seminars on contemporary topics in biology and develop activities for their own classrooms related to both the research activities and seminars. In addition, they will develop the outline for the inservice activities which they will conduct. During the academic year, university staff will make visits to the participant's schools and conferences will be held at the University or other appropriate settings to further the knowledge of teachers or to report research results. The proposal is an outgrowth of an honors workshop for high school teachers conducted in the past two years. The PI is well-qualified to conduct the program, being a research biologist, but also having prior experience in directing teacher development activities. The other staff are research biologists from the University. Experts in biotechnology from the private sector will be used as speakers and consultants.