I-Corps L to discover a sustainable model that will support and scale BioBuilder's curriculum and teacher professional development activities

I-Corps L 探索可持续模式，支持和扩展 BioBuilder 的课程和教师专业发展活动

• 批准号: 1644533
• 负责人: Douglas Lauffenburger
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644533&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; discover; sustainable; model; will

BioBuilder is a curriculum and a teacher training program which was established with the goal of bringing investigative curriculum to high school students and teachers. BioBuilder currently focuses on the emerging field of synthetic biology and started its teacher-training program with 27 teachers in 2011. It has grown to now involve more than 500 teachers in 40+ states and 14 foreign countries. Early success has been consistent with a notion that authenticity sparks student interest and teacher engagement, but it is also recognized that teachers are not the sole or most influential voice in curriculum adoption. Despite the early positive response seen, the project needs to better understand the market forces that can lead to a compelling educational product. The goal in participating with the I-Corps L program is to perform customer discovery to explore scaling and sustaining the appetite seen for BioBuilder's programming and teacher development offerings. BioBuilder provides novel and exemplary pedagogical models to the emerging field of synthetic biology and biological engineering. BioBuilder is a teacher-informed curriculum that has been developed to bridge the gap between science classrooms and university research. The goal is to connect the science and engineering done by professionals to the way these subjects are taught in high schools. By presenting authentic research questions in accessible, modular, and teachable form, BioBuilder fulfills its mission to spark interest, engagement and understanding in science and engineering. There is also a series of professional development workshops co-led by a university faculty member and a BioBuilder-trained K-12 educator. In this way BioBuilder can both disseminate its curriculum to a nationwide audience and also foster an engaged community of teacher leaders.

BioBuilder是一个课程和教师培训计划，其目标是为高中学生和教师提供研究性课程。BioBuilder目前专注于合成生物学的新兴领域，并于2011年开始了教师培训计划，共有27名教师。它已经发展到现在涉及40多个州和14个国家的500多名教师。早期的成功与真实性激发学生兴趣和教师参与的概念是一致的，但人们也认识到，教师不是课程采用中唯一或最有影响力的声音。尽管早期的积极反应，该项目需要更好地了解市场力量，可以导致一个引人注目的教育产品。参与I-Corps L计划的目标是进行客户发现，以探索扩大和维持对BioBuilder编程和教师发展产品的兴趣。BioBuilder为合成生物学和生物工程的新兴领域提供了新颖和示范性的教学模式。BioBuilder是一门由教师指导的课程，旨在弥合科学课堂和大学研究之间的差距。其目标是将专业人士所做的科学和工程与高中教授这些科目的方式联系起来。通过以可访问，模块化和可教的形式呈现真实的研究问题，BioBuilder履行其使命，激发对科学和工程的兴趣，参与和理解。还有一系列的专业发展研讨会共同领导的大学教师和BioBuilder培训的K-12教育家。通过这种方式，BioBuilder既可以向全国范围内的受众传播其课程，也可以培养教师领导者的参与社区。