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

项目摘要/摘要 真实的住宅研究经验构成了非正式科学教育NeuroLab的基石 (ISE)项目，连接发展神经科学和比较基因组学，并提供新的 高中生发现研究神经系统的新分子遗传学工具的机会 连通性。这些高级ISE体验将在我们的 生物科学实验室，有一小群主要是女生的学生。拟议中的努力是为了 通过更大规模的连接来扩大NeuroLab试点项目的积极教育影响 高中生的数量，特别是那些来自传统上服务不足的群体的学生，到成功 这一高级学习体验的要素。为此，该项目将高中教师安置在 三个高度协作的工作目标中心，涉及一个异常多样化的科学团体 专业人士。在该项目的最早阶段，教师将与神经科学家、课程专家、 和NGSS专家就符合循证最佳做法的课程修订进行培训。课程设置 这一阶段产生的战略和产品将用于支持深入的专业人员 发展(PD)指令。PD的目的是促进对学科的掌握、技术熟练程度和 教学实践的变革性变化，在颁布过程中转化为积极的学习结果 为高中生提供真实的、基于课程的研究体验。

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.