High Quality Biotechnology Education

全国生物教师协会（NABT）将利用生命技术公司开展一个项目。(LTI)：位于马里兰州日耳曼敦的GIBCO BRL培训中心实验室。 两年制大学教师与来自全国各地的高中教师合作，将更新尖端的生物技术研究和程序。 这些教师将与来自工业界的科学家和技术人员合作，开发一种创新的教育模式，以迅速适应现代生物技术的先进技术和先进设备，使其适应廉价的、动手的、调查性的课堂活动。 这些活动将使预算有限的两年制大学和中学能够为未来的技术人员和科学家提供生物技术技术和概念方面的良好科学背景。 此外，将建立两年制和高中课程与工业之间的强有力衔接，以确保追求生物技术职业的学生有能力进入工业或研究工作环境，作为合格的技术人员，或在四年制机构攻读更高学位。 这些活动将力求使所有学生，包括妇女、少数民族和残疾人，都参与生物技术的学习。 重点将放在生物技术在人类环境和医学的未来中的作用以及生物技术对植物物种保护和农业丰富的影响。 将对该讲习班的活动进行改进，审查其科学准确性和教学方法，并在全国范围内进行实地测试。 将使用现场测试和审查小组的意见修改活动，以便汇编成一本全国发行的专著。 将通过国家、州、区域和地方各级的培训和在职讲习班传播项目成果。

The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) will conduct a project using the Life Technologies, Inc.(LTI): GIBCO BRL Training Center laboratories in Germantown, Maryland. Two-year college faculty in partnership with high school teachers from across the nation will be updated on cutting-edge biotechnological research and procedures. Teamed with scientists and technicians from industry, these teachers will develop an innovative educational model to rapidly adapt the advanced techniques and sophisticated equipment of modem biotechnology to inexpensive, hands-on, investigative classroom activities. These activities will allow two-year college and secondary schools with limited budgets to provide future technicians and scientists with an excellent scientific background in the techniques and concepts of biotechnology. Additionally, a strong articulation between two-year and high school programs and industry will be established to ensure that students pursuing careers in biotechnology have the ability to enter the industrial or research work environment, as more than competent technicians, or to pursue higher degrees at four-year institutions. These activities will seek to involve all students in learning biotechnology, including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. Emphasis will be placed on the role of biotechnology in the future of the human environment and medicine and the effect of biotechnology on preservation of plant species and enrichment of agriculture. Activities from this workshop will be refined, reviewed for scientific accuracy and pedagogy, and field-tested nationwide. Field test and review panel input will be used to modify the activities for compilation into a monograph for nationwide distribution. Project results will be disseminated through training and in-service workshops at national, state, regional, and local levels.