Research Coordination Network-Undergraduate Biology Education: Promoting Active Learning & Mentoring (PALM) Incubator Program

美国细胞生物学学会与美国植物生物学学会和美国遗传学会合作，因其名为促进主动学习指导（PALM）的项目而获得了研究协调网络-本科生生物学教育奖。该项目正在形成一个网络，通过有效的，长期的专业发展，促进在本科教学和学习的愿景和变化为导向的改革。 在教师和博士后研究员（PALM Fellows）之间组织长期导师关系，以学习教学最佳实践，并与已经用有效的主动学习策略改造了课堂的教师导师进行交流。PALM Fellows参观导师的教室，并参加导师校园内重新设计的课程。 基于这种经验，并在导师的指导下，PALM研究员使用有效的，积极的学习方法来重组他们自己的课程的全部或部分。研究员必须向科学界报告他们的研究结果，并在他们在自己的课堂上获得几年经验后被邀请担任导师。本科生STEM课堂观察协议（COPUS）涉及直接观察课堂教学，正在用于项目评估，以衡量PALM研究员的进展以及该计划的有效性。 项目评估的结果是推进我们的知识，教师专业发展的最佳实践，通过指导。 该项目由生物科学理事会，生物基础设施司和教育和人力资源理事会，本科教育司共同资助，以支持应对本科教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战：行动呼吁http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/。

The American Society for Cell Biology, in collaboration with the American Society for Plant Biology and the Genetics Society of America, has received a Research Coordination Network - Undergraduate Biology Education award for their project entitled Promoting Active Learning & Mentoring (PALM). This project is forming a network to promote Vision and Change-guided reforms in undergraduate teaching and learning through effective, long-term professional development. Long-term mentorships are being organized between faculty and postdoctoral fellows (PALM Fellows) seeking to learn pedagogical best practices and faculty mentors who have already transformed their classrooms with effective active learning strategies.PALM Fellows visit the classrooms of their mentors and participate in redesigned classes on the mentor's campus. Based on this experience, and guided by their mentors, PALM Fellows restructure all, or a portion, of one of their own classes using effective, active learning pedagogies. Fellows are required to report their findings to the scientific community and will be invited to become mentors when they have acquired several years of experience in their own classrooms. The Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS), which involves direct observation of classroom pedagogies, is being used in project evaluation to measure the progress of the PALM Fellows, as well as the effectiveness of the program. The results of the project evaluation are advancing our knowledge of best practice in faculty professional development through mentoring. This project is funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education in support of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/.