Molecular Genetics and Cellular Biology in Primary and Secondary Education

在今后三年中，塔尔萨大学将为地区中小学生物教师及其校长举办一系列为期四周的讲习班，内容涉及现代分子遗传学和细胞生物学。该项目的设计直接回应了地区教师、校长和督学的明确需求和要求，他们在每个情况下，将现代分子遗传学和细胞生物学知识的缺乏列为他们在现代生物学教学和/或理解方面的主要缺陷。每年将有20名教师和他们的校长参加这个项目，这将成为一个明确的区域生物学项目的基础。讲习班将主要以内容为基础，由来自大学、研究机构和私营企业的研究人员就他们正在研究的具体主题担任演讲人。每天有一半的时间将在实验室中处理讲座部分所涵盖的主题的经验方面。教师和硕士生老师一起工作，也将把实验活动“翻译”到适合学生的水平。中小学教师和管理人员将共同努力，创造一个清晰的教育模式。成功实施明确课程的督学将发表演讲，同时举办校长研讨会，并对项目进行严格评估。以往的经验表明，小学/中学联合项目在促进学区变革方面非常成功。塔尔萨大学、塔尔萨教育基金会和参与的学区为这个项目贡献了24%的费用。

Over the next three years the University of Tulsa will conduct a series of four week workshops for regional elementary and secondary biology teachers, and their principals, in the areas of modern molecular genetics and cellular biology. This project was designed in direct response to the expressed needs and requests of regional teachers, principals and superintendents who, in every instance, listed a lack of knowledge in modern molecular genetics and cellular biology as their primary deficiency in the teaching and/or understanding of modern biology. Twenty teachers per year and their principals will participate in this program which will serve as the basis for an articulated regional biology program. The workshop will be heavily content-based with researchers from universities, research institutes, and private industry acting as presenters on the specific topics with which they are working. Half of each day will be spent in the laboratory dealing with the experiential aspects of the topics covered in the lecture portions. Teachers and Master Teachers working together will also "translate" the lab activities to the appropriate level for students. Elementary and secondary teachers and administrators will work together to create an articulated educational model. Presentations by superintendents who have been successful in implementing an articulated curriculum, a concurrent principal's workshop, and a rigorous evaluation of the project will be implemented. Previous experience has demonstrated that a combined elementary/secondary program can be extremely successful in fostering change in a school district. The University of Tulsa, the Tulsa Educational Foundation and the participating school districts have contributed 24% as their share of the cost of this project.