"GK-12" Project SCORE: NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows/Teacher Partnership for Science Curriculum Enhancement in the Fort Worth Independent School District

这个GK-12项目是沃斯堡独立学区和北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心（UNTHSC）之间的合作项目。该项目将培训和支持生物医学科学研究生，作为该区高中生物学生和教师的资源。四所参与的学校主要为少数民族学生提供服务，总体目标是鼓励这些学生进入科学事业。该项目的主要目标是：1)增加对沃斯堡教育系统中科学和科学过程的理解；2)培养生物医学科学研究生，使其成为9年级和10年级生物学课程的资源。这些目标将通过：1)增加地区课程的科学内容；2)通过与年龄相适应的探究性体验促进对科学的理解；3)让学生接触与各区生物课程中特定主题相关的科学以及与科学相关的健康和医学研究事业；4)开发科学网络目录，促进与课程相关的基于互联网的材料的使用；5)建立由教师导师、教师和研究员组成的研究团队，与学区合作开展科学展览和研究项目；(6)加强学员的教学指导和沟通能力；7)举办学习、教育学、生物技术和新科学发现方面的培训和专业教师发展讲习班；8)加强UNTHSC教师、研究员和沃斯堡教师之间现有的外展和丰富项目伙伴关系。

This GK-12 project is a collaboration between the Fort Worth Independent School District and the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC). The project will train and support biomedical science graduate students as resources for the district's high school biology students and teachers. The four participating schools serve predominantly minority students and the overall goal is to encourage entry of these students into science careers. The primary objectives of the project are to: 1) increase understanding of science and science processes in the Fort Worth educational system and 2) train biomedical science graduate students to function as resources for 9th and 10th grade biology classes. These goals will be met by: 1) adding to the science content of the District curriculum; 2) promoting understanding of science through age-appropriate inquiry-based experiences; 3) exposing students to science and science-related health and medical research careers relevant to specific topics in the districts' biology curriculum; 4) developing a science web-directory and promoting the use of the internet based materials relevant to the curriculum; 5) creating research teams of UNTHSC faculty mentors, teachers and fellows to work with the school districts on science fair and research projects; (6) enhancing teaching mentoring and communication skills of Fellows; 7) conducting training and professional teacher development workshops in learning, pedagogy, biotechnology and new scientific discoveries; and 8) strengthening existing partnerships of outreach and enrichment programs among UNTHSC faculty, Fellows and Fort Worth Teachers.