It's Contagious! Promoting the Biomedical Workforce Pipeline through Infectious Diseases

我国的生物医学劳动力需要更多的专业人员。特别是，迫切需要促进多样性 在这个人口中。从小学到大学的干预措施旨在解决这一需求，教育学生 生物医学的机会。然而，重要的是要注意我们未来生物医学劳动力的教育工作者是 这些干预措施往往不包括在内。教师缺乏参与导致知识差距越来越大 关于生物医学劳动力管道和当代生物医学研究课题，必须加以补救。 需要创新的干预措施来扩大学生对生物医学职业的接触，并提高教师对生物医学职业的认识。 生物医学研究领域的专业发展。此外，当教师获得应用数据素养的工具时， 他们的教学实践，然后授权他们最大限度地让学生参与这些新的干预措施。的 SEPA的一项计划，“这是传染病！通过传染病促进生物医学劳动力管道”， 将以当前传染病的科学问题为特色。利用传染病研究和相互作用的数据 与生物医学研究人员一起，教师作为研究人员（TaR）计划将（目标1），让中学教师创造 并将课堂与职业联系（C2 C2）活动和补充叙述融入课堂 目标2（Aim 2）。TaR计划将为教师提供数据素养专业发展，因为他们将收集 C2 C2活动的数据。TaR队列将参加实践社区（CoP）（目标3），他们将申请 数据素养技能，以评估C2 C2活动，评估学生对传染病的知识，并应用数据成果 为教学实践提供信息。在CoP中，教师将在评估学生时与CoP同事进行对话 数据并呈现数据结果。参与者将反思学生活动的数据结果如何为决策提供信息 关于他们自己的教学实践，激发教师在整个职业生涯中应用的数据素养技能。 通过这些目标，“这是传染性的！通过传染病促进生物医学劳动力管道” 将支持教师的使命，因为他们激励下一代生物医学科学家。

Our Country’s biomedical workforce needs more professionals. In particular there is a grave need to promote diversity within this population. Interventions, from elementary to college, to address this need aim to educate students about opportunities in biomedicine. However, it’s important to note the educators of our future biomedical workforce are often not included in these interventions. The lack of engagement of teachers results in a growing gap in knowledge about the biomedical workforce pipeline and contemporary biomedical research topics which must be remedied. Innovative interventions are needed to expand student exposure to biomedical careers as well as enhance teacher professional development in biomedical research areas. Further, when teachers are provided the tools to apply data literacy to their teaching practices, they are then empowered to maximally engage their students in these novel interventions. The proposed SEPA program, “It’s Contagious! Promoting the Biomedical Workforce Pipeline through Infectious Diseases”, will feature the current science issue of infectious diseases. Using data from infectious disease research and interactions with biomedical researchers the Teachers as Researchers (TaR) program will (Aim 1), engage secondary teachers to create and integrate Classroom To Career Connections (C2C2) activities and supplemental narratives into their classroom instruction (Aim 2). The TaR program will provide data literacy professional development for teachers as they will collect data from the C2C2 activities. TaR cohorts will participate in a Community of Practice (CoP) (Aim 3) where they will apply data literacy skills to evaluate C2C2 activities assessing student knowledge of infectious diseases and apply data outcomes to inform teaching practices. Within the CoP Teachers will engage in discourse with CoP colleagues as they evaluate student data and present data outcomes. Participants will reflect upon how data outcomes from student activities inform decisions regarding their own teaching practices galvanizing data literacy skills that teachers will apply throughout their career. Through these aims, “It’s Contagious! Promoting the Biomedical Workforce Pipeline through Infectious Diseases” will support teachers in their mission as they inspire the next generation of biomedical scientists.