Track 2, GK-12 at Baylor College of Medicine

贝勒医学院 GK-12 轨道 2

• 批准号: 0440525
• 负责人: Nancy Moreno
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Baylor College of Medicine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-15 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0440525&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Track; GK; 12; Baylor; College

Baylor College of Medicine, in partnership with the Houston Independent School District (HSID), builds on a three-year GK-12 project aimed at improving high school life science education. Program accomplishments to date include studentand teacher content knowledge gains, and improved student attitudes toward science. In addition, the partnership has led to greater awareness by Baylor research faculty and students of the importance of K-12 science education, the permanent establishment of a Biosciences Resource Lab at Baylor for K-12 educational activities, and successful funding of four new initiatives that link scientists-in-training at Baylor directly to Houston schools, teachers and students. The Track Two project will: continue to select four Fellow-Teacher Teams per year; develop GK-12 Fellows' communications and teaching skills; provide teacher professional development through partnerships with GK-12 Fellows (four teachers per year) and an annual professional development series (24 teachers per year); sustain the Baylor-HISD GK-12 partnership beyond the period of NSF-support through refinement of the partnership model, and phased-in institutional commitments; and disseminate resources developed by GK-12 Fellows and Partner Teachers on an existing biology teaching website.INTELLECTUAL MERIT. By focusing on a single content area (biology) and grade-level range (9-12) within a large urban school district, Baylor's GK-12 program has been able to make progress in improving teacher knowledge and instructional experiences for students. The program also has contributed to the development of graduate student scientists as educators without affecting the quality of their research or their times to graduation. Track Two support will allow further refinement and evaluation of this model. Both Baylor and HISD have made formal commitments to sustain the project to continue to support and improve biology education for the more than 40,000 students enrolled in HISD high schools.BROADER IMPLICATIONS. The GK-12 activities focus on schools with high enrollments of students underrepresented in STEM careers. In addition, schools in Texas are updating their curricula to align with new state assessments and to meet requirements that all high school students pass biology for graduation. GK-12 Fellows are assisting by contributing up-to-date and in-depth science knowledge, in addition to serving as professional role models for students. The dissemination of project-generated resources, including streaming video presentations, downloadable PDF files and annotated slide sets, on a state-of-the-art biology teaching website, BioEd Online (www.bioedonline.org), will expand the scope of the project nationally.

贝勒医学院与休斯顿独立学区（HSID）合作，建立在一个为期三年的GK-12项目的基础上，旨在改善高中生命科学教育。迄今为止的计划成就包括学生和教师的内容知识增益，并改善学生对科学的态度。此外，该伙伴关系还使贝勒大学的研究人员和学生更加认识到K-12科学教育的重要性，在贝勒大学为K-12教育活动永久建立了生物科学资源实验室，并成功资助了四项新举措，这些举措将贝勒大学的科学家直接与休斯顿的学校，教师和学生联系起来。第二轨道项目将：继续每年挑选四个研究员教师团队;发展GK-12研究员的沟通和教学技能;通过与GK-12研究员的伙伴关系提供教师专业发展（每年四名教师）和年度专业发展系列（每年24名教师）;通过完善伙伴关系模式和逐步实施机构承诺，在国家科学基金会支持期之后维持贝勒-HISD GK-12伙伴关系;并在现有的生物教学网站上发布GK-12研究员和合作教师开发的资源。通过专注于一个大型城市学区内的单一内容领域（生物学）和年级范围（9-12），贝勒的GK-12计划已经能够在提高教师知识和学生教学经验方面取得进展。该计划还有助于研究生科学家作为教育工作者的发展，而不会影响他们的研究质量或毕业时间。第二轨道的支持将有助于进一步完善和评估这一模式。贝勒大学和HISD都已正式承诺维持该项目，继续支持和改善HISD高中40，000多名学生的生物学教育。GK-12活动的重点是在STEM职业中代表性不足的学生入学率高的学校。此外，德克萨斯州的学校正在更新他们的课程，以符合新的州评估，并满足所有高中生通过生物学毕业的要求。GK-12研究员通过贡献最新和深入的科学知识来提供帮助，除了作为学生的专业榜样。在最先进的生物学教学网站BioEd Online（www.bioedonline.org）上传播项目产生的资源，包括流式视频演示、可下载的PDF文件和带注释的幻灯片集，将在全国范围内扩大项目的范围。