Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement in Molecular and Cellular Biology

教师资源网络是一个由28名成员组成的获奖联盟，它将东北部的14所文理学院、南部的12所历史上的黑人学院和大学，以及中西部的一所以少数族裔为主的机构与纽约大学联系在一起。该网络建议以其十年来改善本科教学的经验为基础，启动一项为期三年的强化教师培训计划，重点是教授分子和细胞生物学的入门和高级本科课程，并开发创新的实验室技术。两个夏季住宿讲习班构成了该计划的核心内容。第一次是在1996年，重点是分子生物学入门课程，第二次是在1997年，重点是高级分子生物学课程。这些工作坊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基于探究的方法的生物学教学新方法。在每一次研讨会结束时，学员将制作一份课程资料包，其中包括主要讲座主题、实验室实验、相关参考资料和教学策略的摘要，以供直接在课堂上应用。在每个暑期工作坊之后的几个学年中，将在当地各机构举办一系列以校园为基础的座谈会。工作坊的参与者将测试和完善他们在暑期学习中开发的材料，他们将领导这些座谈会，并将有机会与同事分享他们的新知识和教学技术。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名在科学领域任教的网络教员，以及通过领导力联盟和CCTOP(一个三州社区大学联盟)与该网络相连的其他学院和大学的教员。1998年夏天，该计划将在佐治亚州亚特兰大的斯佩尔曼学院举行为期三天的会议。在本次总结活动中，项目参与者将向来自网络机构和其他机构的科学家听众介绍他们在课堂上测试的精细化课程和教学创新。加强分子和细胞生物学的本科教学将引起生物学家的特别兴趣，但它也将使其他涉及分子生物学某方面工作的理科教员以及那些对科学领域有效和创新的教学策略感兴趣的人受益。通过向教师介绍新的和重要的生命科学领域，并强调不同的教学应用，该计划将提高网络大学校园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.