Collaborative Research: The Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project

美国人类遗传学会（ASHG），美国遗传学会（GSA），国家科学资源中心（NSRC）和全国生物教师协会（NABT）正在利用遗传学的广泛主题建立一个框架，以形成教育工作者和科学家之间的长期合作，以及一个可持续的基础设施，以支持科学家在高中科学课堂上进行有意义的推广。遗传学家-教育工作者联盟网络（GENA）项目为合作的科学学会提供了指导、促进和衡量科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师在中学科学教育中的有意义参与的工具。 GENA项目正在探索如何使专业社会监测的中学科学教育推广工作在初级（终身教职前）和高级（终身教职后）遗传学教师的职业发展中发挥积极作用。该项目正在发展一个由92名遗传学家-教育家联盟组成的网络，以设计与遗传学标准和误解有关的教学战略，减少科学家准备推广所需的时间，从而最大限度地提高遗传学家和学生之间的有效和有意义的互动。 遗传学家和高中生物学教师参加研讨会，研究国家科学教育标准中固有的遗传学内容和遗传学教育中的主要误解，并审查遗传学中的示范教材，并接受实施课程的指导。 正在利用示范性的遗传学调查教材来设计方法，以促进科学家与当地教育界之间有意义的互动。 全国92名硕士高中生物教师担任当地学区的培训领导人。 详细的教学战略和案例研究正在通过目前的数学和科学伙伴关系以及由ASHG和GSA赞助的可公开访问的网站在全国范围内传播。该项目正在开发一个模型程序，可供其他学科的科学协会采用。

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), the Genetics Society of America (GSA), the National Science Resources Center (NSRC) and the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) are using the broad theme of genetics to build a framework to form long-term collaborations between educators and scientists and a sustainable infrastructure to support meaningful outreach by scientists in the high school science classroom. The Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project provides the partnering scientific societies with tools to instruct, facilitate, and measure the meaningful engagement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty members in secondary science education. The GENA Project is exploring ways in which a professional society-monitored secondary science education outreach effort can play a positive role in the career development of both junior (pre-tenure) and senior (post-tenure) level genetics faculty. The project is developing a network of 92 master Geneticist-Educator alliances to design teaching strategies related to standards and misconceptions in genetics that can decrease the time required for scientists to prepare for outreach, thus maximizing the effective and meaningful interaction between the geneticists and students. Geneticists and high school biology teachers attend workshops to examine genetics content inherent in state science education standards and key misconceptions in genetics education and to review exemplary educational materials in genetics and receive guidance in implementing lessons. Exemplary inquiry-based educational materials in genetics are being utilized to design methods to facilitate meaningful interactions between scientists and their local education community. The nationwide cadre of 92 master high school biology teachers serve as training leaders in their local school districts. Detailed teaching strategies and case studies are being disseminated nationally through current Math and Science Partnerships and a publicly accessible website sponsored by both ASHG and GSA. The project is developing a model program, adaptable by other disciplinary scientific societies.