The Learning Brain - Interactive Inquiry for Teachers and Students

学习大脑-师生互动探究

• 批准号: 8893932
• 负责人: NANCY P MORENO
• 金额: $ 23.04万
• 依托单位: BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8893932
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our understanding is advancing rapidly of brain function; the interplay of genes and environment; the impacts of alcohol, nicotine, other drugs and environmental toxins on the brain; and neurodevelopment and aging. Yet, today's students are ill equipped to apply this new knowledge to improve their own lives or those of their peers or families. Baylor College of Medicine and project partners will develop, evaluate and disseminate new science and health teaching resources for elementary school audiences, focused on emerging areas in neuroscience aligned with the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research. The project will target grades K-5, because 1) few up-to-date, neuroscience teaching materials are available for these grades, and 2) early grades are critical in the development of healthy behaviors and skills to enable future access to science careers. We build on successful NIH-funded curriculum projects, including a middle school initiative focused on neuroscience and an elementary model for integrating environment, health and reading. The project will be evaluated in schools with high enrollments of underrepresented minority and economically disadvantaged students. Specific aims are to 1) recruit and support a national team of teacher leaders, who will work together and with scientists, clinicians and educators to guide development of three neuroscience supplementary curriculum modules, designed to provide 3-6 weeks of inquiry-based instruction in school or informal learning settings, with connections to reading/language arts; 2) successively field test each curriculum module and supporting materials, in collaboration with project partners, using a well-matched comparison group study design; 3) revise the modules and supporting materials based on field-test outcomes; and develop web-based tools-such as forums, streaming video lesson demonstrations and downloadable teaching materials-to create a dynamic, web-based curricular and teacher professional development resource; and 4) disseminate the curriculum and related resources-lesson demonstrations, teacher professional development sessions, and student activities and materials-via the established, high traffic websites, BioEd Online (www.bioedonline.org) and K8 Science (www.k8science.org), and through other, more traditional pathways to reach national audiences with high quality, low-cost science teaching resources. The project has potential to reach 1.7 million teachers and more than 19 million students in grades K-5. All aspects of the project will be evaluated, both formatively and summatively, to gauge the quality and effectiveness with which project components are delivered and implemented, and the overall value of the experiences provided to teachers and students.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们对大脑功能的理解正在迅速发展;基因和环境的相互作用;酒精，尼古丁，其他药物和环境毒素对大脑的影响;以及神经发育和衰老。然而，今天的学生没有能力应用这些新知识来改善自己或同龄人或家庭的生活。贝勒医学院和项目合作伙伴将为小学观众开发，评估和传播新的科学和健康教学资源，重点关注与NIH神经科学研究蓝图一致的神经科学新兴领域。该项目将针对K-5年级，因为1）这些年级几乎没有最新的神经科学教材，2）早期年级对于健康行为和技能的发展至关重要，以便将来能够进入科学职业。我们建立在成功的NIH资助的课程项目，包括专注于神经科学的中学计划和整合环境，健康和阅读的基本模型。该项目将在少数民族和经济困难学生入学率高的学校进行评估。具体目标是：（1）招募和支持一个国家教师领导小组，他们将与科学家、临床医生和教育工作者一起工作，指导三个神经科学补充课程模块的开发，旨在在学校或非正式学习环境中提供3-6周的探究式教学，并与阅读/语言艺术联系起来; 2）与项目伙伴合作，采用匹配良好的对照组研究设计，对每个课程模块和辅助材料进行连续实地测试; 3）根据实地测试结果修订模块和辅助材料;开发网上工具，如论坛、视频课程演示和可下载的教学材料，以创建一个动态的网上课程和教师专业发展资源; 4）传播课程和相关资源，包括课堂示范，教师专业发展课程，通过已建立的高流量网站BioEd Online（www.bioedonline.org）和K8 Science（www.k8science.org），以及通过其他更传统的途径，向全国受众提供高质量、低成本的科学教学资源，为学生提供科学活动和材料。该项目有可能惠及170万名教师和1 900多万名K-5年级学生。将对项目的各个方面进行形成性和总结性评估，以衡量项目组成部分的交付和实施的质量和有效性，以及向教师和学生提供的经验的总体价值。