"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)的合作项目。该项目将培训和支持生物医学研究生，作为该地区高中生物学学生和教师的资源。四所参与学校主要为少数族裔学生服务，总体目标是鼓励这些学生进入科学职业生涯。该项目的主要目标是：1)增加对沃斯堡教育系统中的科学和科学过程的了解，2)培养生物医学研究生，使其成为9年级和10年级生物课程的资源。将通过以下方式实现这些目标：1)增加学区课程的科学内容；2)通过适合年龄的探究式体验促进对科学的理解；3)使学生接触到与学区生物课程中特定主题有关的科学和与科学有关的健康和医学研究职业；4)开发科学网络目录，并促进使用与课程有关的因特网材料；5)建立联合国人权理事会教员导师、教师和研究员的研究小组，与各学区就科学公平和研究项目开展合作；(6)加强研究员的教学、指导和交流技能；7)举办关于学习、教育学、生物技术和新的科学发现的培训和专业教师发展讲习班；8)加强联合国人权事务高级专员办事处教职员工、研究员和沃斯堡教师之间现有的外联和充实方案伙伴关系。

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.