Minority Initiative for Students and Teachers (MIST)

描述(由申请人提供)： 背景：少数民族在医学教育、实践和研究中的代表性不足仍然是全国范围内的一个重大问题。尽管美国学生总体上在科学和数学方面的表现比许多其他国家的学生差，但黑人和西语裔儿童的平均科学水平远远低于美国白人儿童。随着美国人口结构的变化，必须为贫困和少数民族儿童提供获得强大的科学、研究和数学背景的机会和更好的机会。设计：这是一个为期五年的教育项目。拟议的计划将支持一项新的课程设计，该课程将利用影响少数族裔人口的主要临床疾病来吸引少数族裔学生，并向他们传授有关研究和健康职业的知识。每一年的赠款都将有一个对这个国家的医疗保健非常重要的临床重点：肥胖、癌症预防、哮喘、高血压和冠心病。每年秋季，课程委员会将在对上一年的课程进行全面的需求评估和评估后制定课程。目标是教授解剖学、病理生理学、流行病学、遗传学、行为学、药理学以及使用这些疾病模型的研究应用，以获得并保持学生的兴趣。此外，还将为初中和高中教师和家长提供方案课程，因为他们在美国儿童的教育未来中发挥着非常重要的作用。具体目标：(1)为8-12年级城市代表性不足的少数族裔学生(和其他有明显需要的学生)实施适合年龄的方案，加强：卫生科学、研究和数学方面的特定领域知识；取得学术和工作成功所必需的领域独立能力；(2)促进大纽瓦克地区8年级和12年级学生对生物科学、研究和卫生职业的认识和兴趣，(3)为大学前科学教师扩大与健康有关的知识基础，实行基于绩效的评估，并使用创新的教学模式，(4)通过提供研讨会/讲习班，教授有助于子女进步的技能，加强家长对子女教育的参与，(5)运用多种评估策略，评估该计划在达成目标方面的成效。地点：新泽西州纽瓦克的UMD-新泽西医学院和圣詹姆斯预备学校。参与者：该项目第一年将招收125名学生。初中和高中教师将在该计划的第一年到第四年招聘。参与该计划的儿童的父母和/或法定监护人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Context: Minority under-representation in medical education, practice, and research remains a significant problem nationwide. Even though American students in general perform more poorly in science and math than do students of many other countries, the average science proficiency among black and Hispanic children is far below that of American white children. With American's changing demographics, poor and minority children must be provided with access and better opportunities to acquire strong science, research, and math backgrounds. Design: This is a five year educational program. The proposed program will support a new curriculum design that will utilize major clinical diseases affecting minority populations to interest and teach minority students about research and health careers. Each year of the grant will have one clinical focus that is important to the health care of this country: obesity, cancer prevention, asthma, hypertension, and coronary heart disease. Each fall the Curriculum Committee will develop the curriculum after a comprehensive needs assessment and evaluation of the previous year curriculum. The goal will be to teach anatomy, pathophysiology, epidemiology, genetics, behavior, pharmacology and research applications using these disease models to gain and hold the student's interest. Additionally, there will be programmatic offerings for middle and high school teachers and parents as they play a very significant role in the educational future of American children. Specific Aims: (1) To implement age-appropriate programs for urban underrepresented minority students (and other students with a demonstrated need) in grades 8-12 that strengthens: Domain-specific knowledge in health science, research and mathematics; domain-independent competencies necessary for academic and workplace success; and skills in higher order critical thinking and problem solving, (2) To promote awareness of and interest in careers in biological science, research and health professions among 8th and 12th graders from the greater Newark area, (3) To expand, for pre-college science teachers, the base of health-related knowledge, the practice of performance-based assessments, and the use of innovated teaching modalities, (4) To enhance parent's and involvement in their children's education by offering seminars/workshops that teach skills that will support their child's progress, and (5) To evaluate the effectiveness of the program in reaching its objectives by using a variety of assessment strategies. Settings: UMD-New Jersey Medical School and St. James Preparatory School in Newark, NJ. Participants: One hundred twenty five students will be recruited during the first year of the program. Middle and high school teachers will be recruited in years one through four of the program. Parents and/or legal guardians of the children who participate in the program.