Going to Middle and Early High School Classes with Near-Peer Mentors

描述(由申请人提供)：在发展了初中/高中水平的近同行导师的概念并将其用于沃尔特里德陆军研究所(WRAIR)现在称为数学和科学教育或宝石教育的暑期科学教育强化计划后，我们的目标是最终将该计划扩展到广泛的、基于研究所的年轻、特别挑选的、近同行导师的来源，配备工具包、工具、师生开发的课程、热情、哥伦比亚市区公立学校(具体学校)和其他几所农村贫困学校(弗雷德里克和霍华德县)在科学教学方面的时间和才华。我们将这一计划描述为一个新的校内组成部分，包括科学俱乐部和午餐计划，仿照我们宝贵的暑期科学培训模块和导师计划。我们的内部计划在研究所达到了最大限度。近同行导师将在WRAIR的各个实验室工作，同时完善/调整新的GEMS-X计划的实践活动，该计划将在华盛顿特区的麦金利理工学院HS、玛丽安·科什兰博物馆、Roots特许学校和林肯初级HS、马里兰州弗雷德里克的West Frederick中学、马里兰州弗雷德里克的Folly Quarter中学和马里兰州霍华德县的Glenelg HS进行。根据这些城市/农村地区的当地人口统计数据，少数群体和处境不利的青年、男子和妇女在这么小的年纪就参加了定量学科的具体学习后，可能会越来越频繁地选择科学、数学、工程和技术(SMET)职业。这些学生中的许多人在他们的学校里参加具有挑战性的课程，大大提高了他们的标准化考试成绩，获得了实习机会，得到了科学家和医务人员的推荐，最终能够进入以前无法达到的卫生职业。与公共健康相关：数学与科学教育(GEMS)计划的成果教育了不同的学生群体，使他们的科学教育受益，并最终可能提高参与计划的个人成功进入健康或与健康相关的职业的可能性。医学教育已被证明能改善公众健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Having developed the concept of near-peer mentorship at the middle school/high school level and utilized it in a summer science education enhancement program now called Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science or GEMS at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), it is now our goal to ultimately expand this program into an extensive, research institute-based source of young, specially selected, near-peer mentors armed with kits, tools, teacher-student developed curricula, enthusiasm, time and talent for science teaching in the urban District of Columbia Public Schools (specific schools) and several more rural disadvantaged schools (Frederick and Howard Counties) in science teaching. We describe this program as a new in-school component, involving science clubs and lunch programs, patterned after our valuable summer science training modules and mentorship program. Our in-house program is at its maximum capacity at the Institute. Near-peer mentors will work in WRAIR's individual laboratories while perfecting/adapting hands-on activities for the new GEMS-X program to be carried out at McKinley Technology HS, Marian Koshland Museum, Roots Charter School and Lincoln Junior HS in DC, West Frederick Middle School, Frederick, MD and Folly Quarter Middle School and Glenelg HS, in Howard County, MD. Based on local demographics in these urban/rural areas, minority and disadvantaged youth, men and women, may choose science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) careers with increasing frequency after participating, at such an early age, in specific learning in the quantitative disciplines. Many of these students take challenging courses within their schools, vastly improve their standardized test scores, take on internship opportunities, are provided recommendations from scientists and medical staff and ultimately are able to enter health professions that were previously unattainable. Relevance to Public Health: The Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science (GEMS) program educates a diverse student population to benefit their science education and ultimately may improve the likelihood of successfully entry into a health or health-related professions for participating individuals. Medical education has been show to improve public health.