BIORETS: Genes & the Environment: Research Experiences for Teachers from Rural & Tribal Schools

这个BIORETS网站奖给北达科他州，位于大福克斯，ND大学，将支持八名教师在夏季八周。 将从2024年至2026年招聘三批教师。 教师将参加为期六周的密集研究体验，然后进行为期两周的课程开发。 支持将持续整个学年。 该方案旨在大大增加农村和部落学生接触分子生物学和科学研究的机会。 为确保实现《教育倡议》的目标，将重点从北方大平原地区的农村和部落学校招聘中学教师，该地区面积大，人口少，学校规模小。 为了解决差异，该计划将为教师提供环境生物学的实际研究经验，因为它涉及到基因调控。教师将向其他教育工作者介绍他们的课程和成果，从而扩大该计划的影响。教师将参与生物学和病理学系正在进行的研究项目。 教师将被邀请通过NSF ETAP（教育和培训应用）系统申请该计划。 在开始该计划之前，教师将获得有关研究的信息，并通过Zoom会议介绍给他们的导师。 整个夏天，教师将学习实验室安全和道德/负责任的研究行为，并参加教育理论和项目特定的实验室技术，实验设计，数据收集，分析和演示的研讨会。 教师还将接受培训，在课堂活动中使用分子生物学工具包。 课程开发将侧重于整合他们的夏季研究项目。 课程结束后，PI、导师和教师将通过Zoom会面，协助课程并讨论挑战。 该计划将为教师提供工具包和研究用品和设备。 课程评估将包括对夏季和学年课程本身的评估，以及新课程对学生学习和对STEM态度的影响。该奖项由生物科学理事会（BIO）的生物基础设施部（DBI）和综合活动办公室（OIA）的激励竞争性研究既定计划（EPSCoR）共同支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This BIORETS Site award to the University of North Dakota, located in Grand Forks, ND, will support eight teachers for eight weeks during the summer. Three cohorts of teachers will be recruited from 2024-2026. Teachers will participate in an intensive six-week research experience followed by two weeks of curriculum development. Support will continue throughout the academic year. This program aims to significantly increase the exposure of rural and tribal students to molecular biology and scientific research. To ensure advancement of DEI goals, recruitment will focus on secondary teachers from rural and tribal schools in the Northern Great Plains region, a large area with a low population, where small schools are the norm. To address disparities, this program will provide the teachers actual research experiences in environmental biology as it pertains to gene regulation. Teachers will present their curriculum and outcomes to other educators, thus extending the impact of the program.Teachers will be involved in ongoing research projects in the Biology and Pathology departments. Teachers will be invited to apply to the program through the NSF ETAP (Education and Training Application) system. Before starting the program, teachers will be provided information about the research and introduced to their mentors via Zoom meetings. Throughout the summer, the teachers will learn laboratory safety and ethics/responsible conduct of research, and attend workshops on education theory and project-specific laboratory techniques, experimental design, data collection, analysis, and presentation. Teachers will also be trained in using molecular biology-based kits in their classroom activities. Curriculum development will focus on integrating their summer research project. Post-program, the PIs, mentors and teachers will meet via Zoom to assist with lessons and discuss challenges. The program will provide the teachers with the kits and research supplies and equipment. Program assessment will include both evaluation of the summer and academic year program itself, as well as the impact of the new curriculum on student learning and attitudes about STEM. This award is jointly supported by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) in the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.