Conference: Facilitating Science Teaching Skill Development of Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows and Building Networks of Comm. College and 4-Year Institution Science Faculty

授予坦帕大学的这一奖项将支持25名研究生和/或博士后研究员和10名社区学院教职员工参加为期四天的会议。这次会议是由美国生物化学和分子生物学协会(ASBMB)2017年举办的一系列教育研讨会之一。特别研讨会系列：转变教育。它将于2017年7月20日至23日在坦帕大学举行。这次会议汇集了来自四年制和两年制大学的经验丰富的教师和缺乏教学经验的年轻科学家。有两个主要目标。第一是通过在会议上举行会议并为他们配对一位专门的导师，促进研究生和博士后研究员作为教师的发展，他们将在会议结束后继续与之互动。第二是突出教学方法，这将增加从两年制大学转到四年制大学的学生的留校率和成就率。会议记录的报告将发表在ASBMB Today杂志的印刷版和在线版上，并提交给美国生物化学和分子生物学教育局(BAMBED)期刊。会议旨在解决生命科学教育中的两个问题。首先是年轻科学家缺乏教学经验，其次是从两年制转四年制的学生毕业率较低。第一个问题源于这样一个事实，即生物化学和分子生物学的大多数研究生和博士后研究员都非常专注于他们的研究，几乎没有机会获得关于当前生命科学教学方法的知识或发展他们的教学技能。在会议期间让这些年轻科学家接触现代方法，并为他们提供长期指导，将对他们的专业发展产生积极影响，并为他们的教学做好更好的准备。为了解决转学学生毕业率的差异，会议将包括社区学院的教职员工和来自四年制院校的教职员工。教员们将一起讨论旨在提高学生成功程度的教学方法。以下主题将构成这些讨论的核心：1)高影响力的教学策略；2)本科生课堂研究经验(CURE)；3)生物化学与分子生物学教育学中的分子可视化；4)用于概念理解的教学桑格序列；5)科学教学与评估；6)在线评估工具；7)社区大学到4年制学院/大学的过渡。有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://www.asbmb.org/SpecialSymposia/2017/education/program/或联系PI(迈克尔·卡拉斯特罗博士@ut.edu)。

This award to the University of Tampa will support the attendance of 25 graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows and 10 community college faculty at a four-day conference. The conference is one of a series of education symposia organized under the auspices of the American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 2017 Special Symposia Series: Transforming Education. It will be held at the University of Tampa on July 20-23, 2017. The conference brings together experienced teachers from four-year and two-year colleges and younger scientists who lack teaching experience. There are two major goals. The first is to facilitate the development of the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows as teachers through sessions at the conference and by matching them with a dedicated mentor with whom they will continue to interact after the meeting. The second is to highlight teaching approaches that will increase the retention and success of students transferring from two-year to four-year colleges. A report of the conference proceedings will be published in the ASBMB Today journal, in print and online and submitted for publication to the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED) Journal.The conference is designed to address two issues in life sciences education. The first is the lack of experience of young scientists in teaching and the second is the lower graduation rates of students transferring from two to four-year colleges. The first problem stems from the fact that most graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, in biochemistry and molecular biology, are heavily focused on their research and have little opportunity to gain knowledge about current life sciences pedagogical approaches or develop their teaching skills. Exposing these young scientists to modern approaches in the conference sessions and providing them with long-term mentors will positively impact their professional developmental and better prepare them for teaching. To address the differential graduation rates of transfer students, the conference will include community college faculty and faculty from four-year institutions. Together the faculty will discuss pedagogical methods aimed at improving the success of students. The following topics will form the core of these discussions: 1) High impact teaching strategies; 2) Classroom undergraduate research experiences (CUREs); 3) Molecular visualization in biochemistry & molecular biology pedagogy; 4) Teaching Sanger sequencing for conceptual understanding; 5) Scientific teaching & assessment; 6) Online assessment tools; 7) Community college into 4-year college/university transitions. More information about the conference is available by visiting  http://www.asbmb.org/SpecialSymposia/2017/education/program/ or by contacting the PI (Dr. Michael Carastro mcarastro@ut.edu).