Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement in Molecular and Cellular Biology

教师资源网络是一个由28个获奖成员组成的联盟，它将东北部的14所文理学院，南部的12所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学，中西部的一所以少数族裔为主的大学与纽约大学合作，提议在其十年来改善本科教学的经验的基础上，启动一个为期三年的强化教师充实计划，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。两个夏季住宅工作坊构成了项目的核心。1996年的第一次将侧重于分子生物学入门课程，1997年的第二次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，并探索结合创新实践和探究式教学方法的生物学教学新手段。在每次研讨会结束时，参与者将制作一份课程包，其中包括主要讲座主题的摘要、实验室实验、相关书目材料和教学策略，以供直接课堂应用。在每个夏季研讨会之后的学年里，将在本地院校举行一系列以校园为基础的座谈会。研讨会参与者将在他们的暑期学习中测试和完善所开发的材料，他们将领导这些讨论会，并将有机会与同事分享他们的新知识和教学技巧。总结这些关于课程和教学方法的结论的出版物将出版并分发给600名从事科学教学的网络教师，以及通过领导力联盟和CCTOP（一个三州社区学院联盟）与该网络联系在一起的其他学院和大学的教师。1998年夏季，该计划将以在佐治亚州亚特兰大市斯佩尔曼学院举行的为期三天的会议结束。在最后的活动中，项目参与者将向来自网络机构和其他机构的科学家们介绍他们在课堂上测试的改进的课程和教学创新。分子和细胞生物学的本科教师教学的加强将是生物学家特别感兴趣的，但它也将使其他科学教师受益，他们的工作涉及分子生物学的一个方面，以及那些对科学中有效和创新的教学策略感兴趣的人。通过向教师介绍生命科学的新领域和重要领域，并强调不同的教学应用，该计划将提高网络大学校园中8万名学生的学习质量。

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.