S.C.O.R.E: Students for Community-Oriented Research and Education

 描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的总体目标是增加在健康科学追求事业的代表性不足的少数民族学生的数量。我们的计划将对教师，学生和学校系统产生长期和可持续的影响。对于教师和学校系统，该项目建立了一个教师和健康科学研究人员的学习社区，致力于以与社区健康相关的方式实施与下一代科学标准1（NGSS）一致的课程。健康差距问题将是我们课程工作的重点，但我们预计， 教师将获得更多的技能，开发以调查为基础的材料。对于学生来说，这个项目将帮助他们批判性地思考现实生活中的相关健康问题，并培养他们对科学、社区健康和医疗保健服务的兴趣和技能。我们的近期目标是执行、评估和宣传《战略行动计划》。（面向社区的研究和教育的学生）项目，该项目将教师与KUMC科学家社区联系起来，并帮助他们将尖端的健康科学研究带入他们任教的服务不足的社区。通过在学生的现实背景下提出问题，S.C.O.R.E.教学研究员将使学生参与“以探究为基础的知识化过程“，2从而确保学生致力于解决未来的卫生保健问题。我们的假设是，授权教师将使学生接触到健康科学职业的全方位，并对学生的自我效能，知识和对STEM职业的兴趣产生积极影响。通过把教师作为变革的主要推动者，我们将对学生的知识和职业选择产生更有力和更持久的影响。目标1 -发展：提高教师的能力，将全面开发的以健康差距为重点的调查模块纳入其标准课程。AIM 2 -实施：使教师能够实施以探究为基础的教育计划，以促进自我效能，知识，兴趣和对来自种族和种族多元化社区的高中生健康科学事业的承诺。目标3 -传播：传播专业发展培训材料，课程模块，学生项目，实施指南，以及在目标社区，全州和全国各地的地区吸取的经验教训。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of this project is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing careers in health sciences. Our program will have long-term and sustainable impacts on teachers, students and school systems. For teachers and school systems, this project establishes a learning community of teachers and health science researchers committed to implementing curricula aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards1 (NGSS) in a manner that is relevant to the health of the community. Health disparity issues will be the focus of our curricular work, but we anticipate that teachers will acquire additional skills developing inquiry-based materials. For students, this project will help them to think critically about real-life, relevant health issues and to develop interest and skills in science, community health and health care delivery. Our immediate objective is to implement, evaluate and disseminate the S.C.O.R.E. (Students for Community-Oriented Research and Education) project, which will link teachers with the KUMC community of scientists, and help them bring cutting edge health science research into the underserved communities where they teach. By posing questions within the context of students' realities, S.C.O.R.E. teaching fellows will engage students in an "inquiry-based process of conscientization,"2 thus ensuring students' commitment to tackling the health care problems of the future. Our hypothesis is that empowered teachers will expose students to the full spectrum of health science careers and have a positive impact on student' self-efficacy, knowledge, and interest in STEM careers. By focusing on teachers as the main agents of change, we will have a more powerful and sustained impact on students' knowledge and career choices. AIM 1 - Development: Increase the capacity of teachers to integrate fully-developed inquiry- based modules focused on health disparities into their standards-based curriculum. AIM 2 - Implementation: Enable teachers to implement inquiry-based education programs to promote self-efficacy, knowledge, interest, and commitment to health science careers among high school students from ethnic and racially diverse communities. AIM 3 - Dissemination: Disseminate professional development training materials, curricular modules, student projects, implementation guides, and lessons learned in targeted communities, districts across the state and nationally.