High Quality Biotechnology Education

全美生物教师协会(NABT)将利用生命技术公司(LTI)开展一个项目：设在马里兰州日耳曼敦的GIBCO BRL培训中心实验室。为期两年的大学教师将与全国各地的高中教师合作，了解尖端生物技术研究和程序的最新情况。这些教师将与来自行业的科学家和技术人员合作，开发一种创新的教育模式，迅速将现代生物技术的先进技术和尖端设备应用于廉价、动手、研究性的课堂活动。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优秀科学背景。此外，将在两年制和高中课程与行业之间建立强有力的联系，以确保在生物技术领域寻求职业生涯的学生有能力进入工业或研究工作环境，比胜任的技术人员更多，或者在四年制机构攻读更高的学位。这些活动将寻求让所有学生学习生物技术，包括妇女、少数群体和残疾人。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在保护植物物种和丰富农业方面的作用。该讲习班的活动将得到改进，审查科学准确性和教学方法，并在全国范围内进行实地测试。实地测试和审查小组的意见将用于修改活动，以便汇编成一本专著，在全国范围内发行。项目成果将通过国家、州、区域和地方各级的培训和在职讲习班传播。

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.