Summer Immunology Research Program for High School Science Teachers

描述(由申请者提供)：这份申请是对哥伦比亚大学、斯坦福大学、德克萨斯大学西南医学中心的三个现有的科学教师暑期研究项目和科罗拉多大学国家犹太医学和研究中心的新生暑期研究项目的回应，这些项目旨在进一步推进NIAID在促进免疫学、微生物学和传染病的研究、教育、服务和公众意识方面的责任。在最初的四年里，这项计划将提高24名高中生命科学教师的知识和理解，并通过他们，提高纽约、丹佛、旧金山湾区和达拉斯的约1600名未被充分代表和占多数的高中生的兴趣、成就和对这些学科中具有智力挑战、人文回报和个人报酬的职业的机会的认识。它通过向在职高中生命科学教师提供免疫学、微生物学和传染病方面的特殊概念和实践专门知识，并使他们做好准备，更好地传达当代免疫学、微生物学和传染病研究和临床服务的活力和与促进人类健康的相关性，从而实现这些目标。申请文件规定，为市中心的高中科学教师提供机会，在大学教师的指导下，连续两个夏天进行实践免疫学研究，并接受专业发展，使他们能够将在这些经历中获得的概念和技能转移到课堂和实验室，提高学生对科学的兴趣和成就。教师将被要求制定一项教育转移计划，将他们的免疫学研究经验与当地基于标准的课程直接联系起来，包括开发新的实验室课程。通过增加学生对免疫学、微生物学和传染病的了解和知识，这个项目可能会使学生对这些学科的职业产生兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is the response of three existing Summer Research Programs for Science Teachers at Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and the nascent Summer Research Program at National Jewish Medical and Research Center-University of Colorado to NIAID's request for outreach programs that further advance its responsibilities to promote research, education, service, and public awareness of immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases. In its first four years, this program will elevate knowledge and understanding of 24 high school life science teachers, and through them, the interest, achievement and awareness of ~1600 under-represented and majority high school students in New York, Denver, the San Francisco Bay area, and Dallas of opportunities for intellectually challenging, humanly rewarding, and personally remunerative careers in these disciplines. It accomplishes these goals by providing in-service high school life sciences teachers with special conceptual and practical expertise in immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases and by preparing them to better communicate the dynamism and relevance of contemporary immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases research and clinical service to advancement of human health. The application documents that providing inner-city high school science teachers with opportunities to do hands-on immunology research for two consecutive summers under the mentorship of university faculty and to receive professional development that enables them to transfer to their classrooms and laboratories the concepts and skills acquired in these experiences increases student interest and achievement in science. The teachers will be required to develop an educational transfer plan which directly links their immunology research experience to local standards-based curriculum, including the development of new lab lessons. By increasing student acquaintance and knowledge in immunology, microbiology and infectious disease this program is likely to interest students in careers in these disciplines.