Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement in Molecular and Cellular Biology

教师资源网络--一个由28名成员组成的屡获殊荣的联盟，它连接了东北部的14所文科学院，南部的12所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学，和一个主要少数民族机构在中西部与纽约大学-建议建立在其十年的经验，改善本科教学，启动密集的三-一年的教师充实计划，重点是分子和细胞生物学的入门和高级本科课程的教学，以及创新实验室技术的发展。 两个夏季住宅研讨会形成了该计划的核心。 1996年举办的第一个讲习班将侧重于分子生物学入门课程，1997年举办的第二个讲习班将侧重于高级分子生物学课程。 研讨会将向教师介绍分子生物学的最新方法和技术，并探索生物学教学的新方法，包括创新的实践和探究式方法。 在每个研讨会结束时，参与者将制作一个课程包，其中包括主要讲座主题，实验室实验，相关的书目材料和教学策略的摘要，直接在课堂上应用。 在每个夏季讲习班之后的学年期间，将在本国机构举行一系列以当地校园为基础的座谈会。 研讨会的参与者将测试和完善他们在暑期学习期间开发的材料，将领导这些座谈会，并将有机会与同事分享他们的新知识和教学技巧。 将出版总结这些关于课程和教学方法的结论的出版物，并分发给600名从事科学教学的网络教师，以及通过领导联盟和三州社区学院联盟CCTOP与网络联系的其他学院和大学的教师。 1998年夏季，该方案将在格鲁吉亚亚特兰大的Spelman学院举行一次为期三天的会议。 在本次总结活动中，项目参与者将向来自网络机构及其他机构的科学家观众介绍他们在课堂上测试的精炼课程和教学创新。 在教学分子和细胞生物学本科教师增强将特别感兴趣的生物学家，但它也将有利于其他科学教师的工作涉及分子生物学的一个方面，以及那些谁是在科学有效和创新的教学策略感兴趣。 通过向教师介绍生命科学的新的和重要的领域，并通过强调不同的教学应用，该计划将提高网络大学校园的80，000名学生的学习质量。

The Faculty Resource Network--a 28 member award-winning consortium which links fourteen liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, twelve historically black colleges and universities in the South, and one predominantly minority institution in the Midwest with New York University-proposes to build on its decade of experience in improving undergraduate teaching by initiating an intensive three-year faculty enrichment program focusing on the teaching of introductory and advanced undergraduate courses in molecular and cellular biology and the development of innovative laboratory techniques. Two summer residential workshops form the centerpiece of the program. The first, in 1996, will focus on introductory molecular biology courses and the second, in 1997, on advanced molecular biology courses. The workshops will introduce faculty to the latest methods and techniques of molecular biology and explore new means of teaching biology that incorporate innovative hands-on and inquiry-based methods. At the conclusion of each of the workshop sessions, participants will have produced a curricular packet, which includes summaries of major lecture themes, laboratory experiments, relevant bibliographical materials, and teaching strategies, for direct classroom application. During the academic years following each summer workshop, a series of local campus-based colloquia at the home institutions will be held. Workshop participants, who will have tested and refined the material developed during their summer study, will lead these colloquia, and will have an opportunity to share their new knowledge and teaching techniques with colleagues. Publications summarizing these conclusions on curricular and pedagogical methods will be published and distributed to the 600 Network faculty members teaching in the sciences, together with faculty members of other colleges and universities linked to the Network through the Leadership Alliance and CCTOP, a tri-state community college consortium. In Summer 1998, the program will conclude with a three-day conference held at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. At the this concluding event, program participants will make presentations on the refined curricular and pedagogical innovations they have tested in their classrooms to an audience of scientists from Network institutions and beyond. Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement in Teaching Molecular and Cellular Biology will be of particular interest to biologists, but it will also benefit other science faculty whose work involves an aspect of molecular biology, as well as those who are interested in effective and innovative teaching strategies in the sciences. By introducing faculty to new and important areas of the life sciences and by emphasizing different pedagogical applications, the program will improve the quality of learning for the 80,000 students on Network college campuses.