U.T.-PAN AMERICAN'S MODEL BIOSCIENCES EDUCATION PROGRAM.

描述(由申请人提供)：建议的总体目标 德克萨斯大学-泛美模式生物科学教育项目将 开发生物技术和医学实验室科学课程，并 建立区域生物技术学习实验室(以下简称“区域” 生物技术)，它将提供基于实践探究的教育体验 为初中生和高中生提供生物技术和实验室科学 得克萨斯州的格兰德河谷地区。区域生物技术将使 生物医学科学家、临床实验室科学家和教育工作者授课 初高中学生和他们的老师现代生物技术实验室 技术，包括这些技术在 人类疾病的诊断。据报道，许多学区缺乏 学生和教师需要进行基于实际操作的探究的资源 科学，特别是生物技术，这一缺点被认为是 初中生理科成绩不佳的原因。 在格兰德河下游，学区资源匮乏的情况更为严重 山谷，位于德克萨斯州南部与墨西哥交界处的一个四县地区 由30个以西班牙裔为主的独立学区组成 人口。区域生物技术将成为一个集中化的实验室，从战略上讲 位于德克萨斯泛美大学(UTPA)。我们将增加两个 新改建的实验室配备了最新的设备和实验室 每天为学生和他们的学生提供实验室设施的人员 老师们。课程和实验模块将从CELL和 分子生物学、临床化学、免疫学、血液学、 免疫血液学和微生物学。该地区所有学校的学生， 其中8%的人被认为是经济上的弱势群体， 有针对性的。我们有信心全面实施这一项目。 由于以下原因：生物医学专业知识；现有的合作伙伴关系 UTPA和地区学区；制定和实施Pre-TPA的经验 以西班牙裔为主的大学生物医学科学增修项目 学生；UTPA管理部门的承诺；一个 位于全国标准最差的大都市之一的社区 统计领域；以及我们得到社会各界的大力支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the proposed University of Texas-Pan American's Model Biosciences Education Project is to develop a biotechnology and medical laboratory science curriculum and establish a regional biotechnology learning laboratory (hereafter, "Regional Biotech) that will provide hands-on inquiry based educational experiences in biotechnology and laboratory science for middle and high school students in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas. Regional Biotech will enable biomedical scientists, clinical laboratory scientists and educators to teach middle/high school students and their teachers modern biotechnology laboratory techniques including practical applications of these techniques to the diagnosis of human diseases. Many school districts are reported to lack the resources students and teachers need to conduct inquiry based hands-on science, particularly biotechnology and this shortcoming is cited as one of the reasons middle and high school students perform poorly in science. Scarcity of resources in school districts is worse in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, a four county region situated along the south Texas border with Mexico and comprising 30 independent school districts with a predominantly Hispanic population. Regional Biotech will be a centralized laboratory, strategically located at the University of Texas Pan American (UTPA). We will augment two newly remodeled laboratories with state-of-the-equipment plus laboratory personnel to provide laboratory facilities daily for students and their teachers. The curriculum and experiment modules will be drawn from cell and molecular biology, clinical chemistry, immunology, hematology, immunohematology, and microbiology. Students in all schools in the region, eight percent of who are recognized as economically disadvantaged, will be targeted. We are confident of succeeding in fully implementing this project because of the following: biomedical expertise; existing partnerships between UTPA and area school districts; experience in developing and implementing pre- college biomedical science enrichment programs for predominantly Hispanic students; the commitment of the UTPA administration; the urgent needs of a community located in one of the nation's poorest standard metropolitan statistical area; and the strong support we receive from the community.