Minority Opportunities in Research Education (MORE)

此少数民族K-12教师和学生计划（MKITS）申请旨在开发，评估和传播以心血管和肺部健康为中心的新教材。该提案的目的是利用国家心肺和血液研究所（NHLBI）支持的基础和面向患者的临床研究的信息作为示例，以创建有效教授科学和数学原理、健康促进和疾病预防的课程和活动。 在这样做，这个程序，题为少数民族研究教育的机会（更多），将满足少数民族教师和学生的NHLBI MKITS目标（1）获得科学知识和研究技能在心脏，肺，血液和睡眠障碍，（2）参与相关的心血管和肺部健康的研究经验，和（3）在科学，研究和医学发展的职业目标。 在德克萨斯州的圣安东尼奥，德克萨斯大学健康科学中心（UTHSCSA）的研究人员与学校教师和学区成功合作已有10年的历史。 针对本建议，我们设计了六个具体目标，以实现长期目标：1。招募少数民族学生教师参与科学教育与课程发展的发现计划;提供一个为期六周的关于科学过程的互动系列研讨会，作为回答问题和解决问题的一种手段; 3.通过创建教师和科学家的跨学科团队，开发基于NHLBI支持的心脏，肺，血液和睡眠障碍研究的例子的基础上探究的教学材料; 4。制定一套有凝聚力的定量评估策略，以确定新教材是否提高了：（a）特定于德克萨斯州和国家数学和科学课程目标标准的知识和技能，（B）特定于心脏，肺，血液和睡眠障碍的知识，以及（c）参与科学发现过程以检验假设的能力; 5.衡量学生和教师对科学作为一种职业的态度和信念的变化;透过互联网及教师专业发展工作坊，发放新教材。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Minority K-12 Initiative for Teachers and Students (MKITS) application seeks to develop, evaluate, and disseminate new teaching materials centered on cardiovascular and pulmonary health. The purpose of this proposal is to utilize information from National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) supported basic and patient oriented clinical research as examples to create lessons and activities that effectively teach scientific and mathematical principles, health promotion, and disease prevention. In so doing, this program, titled Minority Opportunities in Research Education (MORE), will meet the NHLBI MKITS objectives of minority teachers and students (1) gaining scientific knowledge and research skills in heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, (2) participating in research experiences related to cardiovascular and pulmonary health, and (3) developing career goals in science, research, and medicine. In San Antonio, TX, investigators at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSCSA) have a 10 year history of successfully partnering with school teachers and school districts. For the present proposal, we designed six specific aims to achieve the long-range goals: 1. To recruit teachers of minority students into a discovery program of science education and curriculum development; 2. To deliver an interactive six-week seminar series on the scientific process as a means for answering questions and solving problems; 3. By creating interdisciplinary teams of teachers and scientists, to develop inquiry based instructional materials based on examples of NHLBI supported heart, lung, blood and sleep disorder research; 4. To develop a cohesive set of quantiative evaluation strategies to determine whether the new teaching materials improves, (a) knowledge and skills specific to State of Texas and National Standards for math and science curricular objectives, (b) knowledge specific to heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders, and (c) the capacity to engage in the scientific process of discovery to test hypotheses; 5. To measure changes in students and teachers attitudes and beliefs about science as a career; 6. To disseminate the new teaching materials through the internet and teacher professional development workshops.