A Collaborative Approach to Real-World Science in the Classroom

让学生在他们还在高中的时候就从事生物医学科学是迈向 教育有科学素养的公民，以及启动管道，最终将导致 生物医学和健康相关专业人员的数量。这项提议是由生物医学 塔夫茨大学医学院的科学家、麦迪逊公园技术学院的生物教师和 职业高中、波士顿拉丁学院和波士顿拉丁学校，都是波士顿市中心的公立学校 高中，以及莱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，他们看不到现实世界的科学 这些经历反映在课堂上。它通过开发和传播一部小说来实现这一目标 在五大背景下，以生物医学研究为重点的探究式高中生物课程 挑战全球健康的疾病--传染病、神经系统疾病、心血管疾病、癌症和糖尿病。一把钥匙 该提案的要素是解决在课堂上调整内容和过程以实现 教师要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，以互动的方式指导深入的专业人员 开发5个课程模块中的每一个模块。然后，学习社区将就 第二个目标；制定课程内容，并制定可交付成果，以便在#年实施课程 教室里。这份材料将包括教学大纲和基于网络的虚拟和真实的互动询问- 基地实验室练习将传播到波士顿公立学校系统和更广泛的 将教育社区作为第三个目标的一部分。第四个目标是设计和实施评估 该战略将允许在项目期间进行持续修订，以确保成果的最优化。这个 塔夫茨医学和生物医学研究生院的参与确保了该项目的高度可持续性。 我们的最终目标是将其建立为医学院和学区如何互动的典范 在高中阶段传播对潜在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.