A Maine ScienceCorps Promoting Excellence and Equity in High School Biological Science Education

缅因州科学团促进缅因州高等学校生物科学教育的卓越和公平如果与高中生物学教师合作，南缅因州大学(USM)免疫学和分子生物学研究生研究生将把实验室和探究性活动带到服务不足的缅因州教室，同时在研究生课程中增加对学习和教学的探究性方法的关注。长期资金不足的农村学校的学生通常没有足够的机会接触实验室设施和教室外的科学世界。Science Corps通过学生和教师的探究性学习活动和实验室体验计划，扩大了USM和血液研究基金会在丰富高中生物科学教育方面长达22年的合作伙伴关系。Science Worksfor ME是一个正在进行的项目，为教师和学生提供暑期学院，并为基于实验室的活动主办访问高中生物课程，为研究生研究员在高中生物课堂上有效服务所需的大部分培训提供了框架。每支由两名研究生组成的Science Corps团队将把通过Science Works开发和测试的活动带入全州各地的农村高中课堂，并将与熟练的高中教师合作开发新的活动，以促进这些教师努力达到州和国家科学教育标准。

A Maine ScienceCorps Promoting Excellence and Equity in Ifigh School Biological Science EducationIn partnership with high school biology teachers, a "ScienceCorps" of University of Southern Maine (USM) immunology and molecular biology graduate student fellows will bring laboratory and inquiry-based activities into underserved Maine classrooms while adding a focus upon inquiry methods of learning and teaching to their graduate curriculum. Students in chronically underfunded rural schools typically have inadequate access to laboratory facilities and the scientific world beyond the classroom. ScienceCorps extends the twenty-two year partnership of USM and the Foundation for Blood Research in enrichment of high school biological sciences education through programs of inquiry-based learning activities and laboratory experiences for students and teachers. ScienceWorksfor ME, an ongoing program providing summer institutes for teachers and students and hosting visiting high school bioloav classes for laboratory-based activities, provides the framework for much of the training that graduate fellows will need to serve effectively in high school biology classrooms. ScienceCorps teams, each consisting of two graduate fellows, will take activities developed and tested through ScienceWorks into rural high school classrooms across the state and will also work with skilled high school teachers in developing new activities that will facilitate these teachers'efforts to meet state and national science education standards.0086341