NeuroLab: Adapting an authentic ISE experience for high school course integration and positive STEM outcomes

项目总结/摘要 真实的住宅研究经验形成了NeuroLab的基石，一个非正式的科学教育 (ISE)项目，桥梁发展神经科学和比较基因组学，并提供新颖的 高中生有机会识别新的分子遗传工具来研究神经系统 连通性。这些先进的伊势体验在我们的寄宿暑期学院举办期间展开， 生物科学实验室，主要由女生组成的小组。拟议的努力旨在 扩大积极的教育影响的神经实验室试点项目，通过连接显着更大的 许多高中生，特别是那些来自传统上得不到充分服务的群体的学生， 这些先进的学习经验。为此，该项目将高中教师安置在 三个高度合作的工作目标的中心，涉及一个非常多样化的科学小组 专业人士在项目的早期阶段，教师将与神经科学家，课程专家， 和NGSS专家对符合循证最佳实践的课程修订。课程 从这一阶段产生的战略和产品将用于支持深入的专业 开发（PD）指令。PD旨在促进学科掌握，技术熟练， 教学实践的变革，在颁布期间转化为积极的学习成果 一个真实的，以课程为基础的研究经验的高中生。

Project Summary/Abstract Authentic residential research experiences form a cornerstone of NeuroLab, an informal science education (ISE) project that bridges developmental neuroscience and comparative genomics, and provides novel opportunities for high school students to identify new molecular genetic tools to study nervous system connectivity. These advanced ISE experiences unfold during residential summer institutes hosted at our biosciences laboratory with small cohorts of predominantly female students. The proposed effort is intended to scale the positive educational impacts of the NeuroLab pilot project by connecting significantly larger numbers of high school students, particularly those from traditionally underserved groups, to successful elements of this advanced learning experience. To this end, the project places high school teachers at the center of three highly collaborative work aims involving an exceptionally diverse group of science professionals. In the earliest phase of the project, teachers will work with neuroscientists, curriculum experts, and NGSS specialists on curriculum revisions that conform to evidence-based best practices. Curriculum strategies and products that emerge from this phase will be used to support in-depth professional development (PD) instruction. PD is aimed at promoting subject mastery, technical proficiency, and transformative changes in teaching practices that translate into positive learning outcomes during enactment of an authentic, course-based research experience for high school students.