Summer Immunology Research Program for High School Science Teachers

描述（由申请人提供）：这一申请是针对三个现有的暑期科学教师研究项目的回应，分别是哥伦比亚大学、斯坦福大学、德克萨斯大学西南医学中心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，以响应NIAID的扩展项目请求，进一步推进NIAID在促进免疫学研究、教育、服务和公众意识方面的职责。微生物学和传染病。在最初的四年里，该项目将提升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约1600名未被充分代表和大多数高中生的兴趣、成就和意识，让他们有机会在这些学科中从事具有智力挑战、人文回报和个人报酬的职业。它通过为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业知识，并使他们能够更好地交流当代免疫学、微生物学和传染病研究的活力和相关性，以及促进人类健康的临床服务，从而实现这些目标。该申请文件为市中心高中科学教师提供了在大学教师的指导下连续两个暑假进行动手免疫学研究的机会，并获得专业发展，使他们能够将这些经验中获得的概念和技能转移到教室和实验室，从而提高了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标准课程直接联系起来，包括开发新的实验课。通过增加学生对免疫学、微生物学和传染病的认识和知识，本课程可能会引起学生对这些学科的职业兴趣。

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.