Science Education Enabling Careers (SEEC)

描述（由申请人提供）：中学，当学生进入青春期时，可能是最关键的教育阶段，让他们参与科学教育，并将他们的梦想与科学事业相协调；然而，一些障碍使这种转变变得困难。现有文献和我们与教师的长期互动伙伴关系确定了限制理科教育有效性的三个重要障碍。1)教师往往缺乏足够的科学领域的内容知识，无法有效地教授学生。随着科学的快速发展，这种情况变得更加复杂，这要求教师参与重大的专业发展，以跟上知识变化的步伐。2)理科教师通常缺乏生物医学专业的经验，因此，他们和他们的学生对科学教育如何转化为有意义的职业缺乏充分的理解。3)虽然探究式教育显然是最有效的教育方法，以创造和维持学生对科学的兴奋，许多教师，特别是那些在缺乏服务的学校，使用传统的教学方法，他们认为维持课堂秩序。如果教师要激发学生对科学的兴趣，他们需要实际的课程、帮助和课堂管理的实践。SEEC将通过教师教育和创建模块来解决这三个问题，这些模块将形成一个有效的桥梁，让学生和家长认识到

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Middle school (MS), when students enter adolescence, is perhaps the most critical educational point at which to engage them in science education and attune their dreams to careers in science; however, several obstacles make this transition difficult. The extant literature and our long-term interactive partnerships with teacher identify three important barriers that can limit the effectiveness of MS science education. 1) Teachers often lack sufficient content knowledge in their area of science to effectively teach their students. This is compounded as science is rapidly evolving, requiring teachers to engage in significant professional development to keep pace with knowledge changes. 2) MS teachers typically have little experience in biomedical professions, and thus, they and their students lack a full understanding of how science education translates into meaningful careers. 3) While inquiry-based education is clearly the most effective educational method to create and sustain excitement in students about science, many teachers, especially those in underserved schools, utilize traditional didactic teaching methods they feel maintain classroom order. If teachers are to excite students about science, they need practical lessons, assistance and practice in classroom management. SEEC will address all three issues through teacher education and the creation of modules that will form an effective bridge to allow students and parents to realize the very exciting biomedical careers to which science education can lead. Twelve MS science teachers each year will be enrolled in a summer science careers Boot Camp. Each day the camp will focus on an area of State Science Standards in which the area students are historically deficit. Each session starts content deepening information, delivered by a scientist working in that biomedical-related field. Teachers will then conduct an inquiry-based, participatory experiment that uses the tools of that career to answer a scientific question. Teachers will also receive training in classroom management and individual learning styles and will create inquiry-based experiences that will address the science deficiency and excite students about science career opportunities. All of the teachers will then continue to learn through teaching and research internships (academia and/or biomedical businesses) and in the classroom using modules they develop. The program will also include Science Fair Overnighters to prepare students to be competitive in science and a Biomedical Jobs Fair for the students and parents to learn about science careers. The Intellectual Merit of this project wil be to enhance teacher development by providing up-to-date knowledge of science content, exposure to biomedical scientists and training in participatory science experiments and classroom management thus enabling them to excite MS students about biomedical science education and position them for competitive biomedical careers.. The broader impacts will include the translation and testing of a science education model and the creation of experience that integrate NIH biomedical science research into MS education.