Minority Initiative for Students and Teachers (MIST)-Ph*

学生和教师少数族裔倡议 (MIST)-Ph*

• 批准号: 7901790
• 负责人: Mark S. Johnson
• 金额: $ 17.79万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MED/DENT OF NJ-NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-13 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7901790
• 关键词: Minority; Initiative; Students; Teachers; MIST

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 8thand 12thgraders 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. Settimzs: UMD-New Jersey Medical School and St. James Preparatory School in Newark, NJ. Particioants: 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.

背景：少数族裔在医学教育、实践和研究中的代表性不足仍然是一个重大问题 全国。尽管美国学生总体上在科学和数学方面的表现比美国学生差 在许多其他国家，黑人和西班牙裔儿童的平均科学水平远远低于美国人 白人儿童。随着美国人口结构的变化，必须为贫困儿童和少数族裔儿童提供机会和机会 获得强大的科学、研究和数学背景的更好机会。设计：这是一个五年制的教育项目 程序。拟议的计划将支持新的课程设计，该设计将利用影响的主要临床疾病 少数民族人口对研究和健康职业感兴趣并向少数民族学生传授这些知识。每年的补助金 将有一个对这个国家的医疗保健很重要的临床焦点：肥胖、癌症预防、哮喘、 高血压、冠心病。每年秋天，课程委员会将在经过一段时间的审查后制定课程 全面的需求评估和上一年课程的评价。目标是教授解剖学， 使用这些疾病模型的病理生理学、流行病学、遗传学、行为、药理学和研究应用 赢得并保持学生的兴趣。此外，还将为初中和高中提供程序化课程 教师和家长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) 为城市弱势少数民族学生（以及其他具有一定年龄特征的学生）实施适龄计划 已证明的需要）在 8-12 年级，强化： 健康科学、研究和领域的特定领域知识 数学;学术和工作场所成功所需的独立于领域的能力；和更高层次的技能 培养批判性思维和解决问题的能力，(2) 提高对生物科学职业的认识和兴趣， 来自大纽瓦克地区的 8 年级和 12 年级学生的研究和健康专业，(3) 扩大，针对大学预科 科学教师、健康相关知识基础、基于绩效的评估的实践以及使用 （四）创新教学方式，提高家长对子女教育的参与度 教授支持孩子进步的技能的研讨会/讲习班，以及 (5) 评估以下活动的有效性 该计划通过使用各种评估策略来实现其目标。设置：UMD-新泽西医疗 学校和新泽西州纽瓦克的圣詹姆斯预科学校。参加人数：一百二十五名学生 在该计划的第一年招募。初中和高中教师将在第一年通过 方案四。参与该计划的儿童的父母和/或法定监护人。