A Collaborative Approach to Real-World Science in the Classroom

让学生在高中阶段就参与生物医学科学是实现这一目标的关键的第一步。 教育科学素养的公民，以及启动管道，最终将导致增加 生物医学和卫生相关专业人员的数量。这项提案是生物医学和 塔夫茨大学医学院的科学家，麦迪逊公园技术学院的生物学教师， 职业高中，波士顿拉丁学院和波士顿拉丁学校，所有内城波士顿公立 高中，和赖特科学教育创新中心的成员，也在塔夫茨。它的目标是 激发11年级和12年级学生的想象力，他们看不到他们真实的世界的科学。 在课堂上反映的经验。它通过开发和传播一种小说来实现这一目标 以探究为基础的高中生物学课程，重点是在五个“伟大的”背景下进行生物医学研究。 这些疾病包括传染病、神经系统疾病、心血管疾病、癌症和糖尿病。一个关键 该提案的一个要素是解决在课堂上调整内容和过程的挑战， 教师创造以知识为中心的课堂，这对学习迁移至关重要。相应地 第一个目标是首先开发一个学习社区，以交互方式指导深入的专业人员 发展的基础上的每一个5课程模块。然后，学习社区将在 第二个目标;开发课程内容，并为实施课程提供可交付的成果， 教室这种材料，其中将包括一个教学大纲和基于网络的虚拟和真实的互动调查- 基础实验室练习将传播到波士顿公立学校系统和更广泛的 教育是第三个目标的一部分。第四个目标是设计和实施评价 该战略将允许在项目期间不断修订，以确保优化成果。的 塔夫茨大学医学和生物医学研究生院的参与确保了该计划的高度可持续性。 我们的最终目标是将其建立为医学院和学区如何互动的模式， 在高中一级传播对疾病的生物医学研究的理解。

Engaging students in the biomedical sciences while they are still in high school is a critical first step toward educating a scientifically literate citizenry as well as initiating the pipeline that will eventually result in increased numbers of biomedical and health related professionals. This proposal is a collaboration between biomedical scientists at Tufts University School of Medicine, biology teachers at the Madison Park Technical and Vocational High School, the Boston Latin Academy and the Boston Latin School, all inner city Boston public high schools, and members of the Wright Center for Innovation in Science Education, also at Tufts. Its goal is to engage the imagination of 11th and 12th grade students who do not see the science of their real world experiences mirrored in the classroom. It accomplishes this goal by developing and disseminating a novel inquiry-based high school biology curriculum that focuses on biomedical research in the context of five 'great diseases' that challenge global health - infectious, neurological, cardiovascular, cancer and diabetes. A key element of the proposal is addressing the challenge of aligning content and process in the classroom to enable teachers to create the knowledge-centered classrooms that are critical for learning transfer. Accordingly the first aim is to first develop a learning community that will interactively guide the in-depth professional development underlying each of the 5 curricular modules. The learning community will then collaborate on the second aim; to develop curricular content and to generate deliverables for implementation of the curriculum in the classroom. This material, which will include a syllabus and web-based virtual and real interactive inquiry- base laboratory exercises will be disseminated into the Boston Public School system and the broader educational community as part of the third aim. The fourth aim is to design and implement an evaluation strategy that will allow for ongoing revision during the project to ensure optimization of outcomes. The involvement of Tufts medical and biomedical graduate schools ensures that the program is highly sustainable. and our final goal is to establish it as a model of how medical schools and school districts can interact to disseminate understanding of the biomedical research underlying disease at the high school level.