Biotechnology Research Seminars for Leaders in Secondary School Science Education

这一教师增强项目将每年增加20名高中生物教师在生物技术、生物研究、解决问题和科学写作领域的专业知识。这20名教师将在为期6周的暑期计划结束后返回学校，以丰富他们的教学计划，为他们的同事提供在职经验，并在课程改革和实验室发展方面发挥领导作用。教师将从明尼苏达州、威斯康星州、爱荷华州、北达科他州和南达科他州等中西部上州的学区中挑选。后续活动将帮助教师进行教学修改和领导活动。被选中的教师在春季与合适的大学教职员工会面，考虑他们的暑期研究项目。到他们夏天到达时，这个项目已经计划好了，并部分开发了。在暑假期间，除了从事他们的项目外，他们还参加当代生物学主题的研讨会，并在自己的教室里开展与研究活动和研讨会相关的活动。此外，他们还将制定他们将开展的在职活动大纲。在学年期间，大学工作人员将访问参与者所在的学校，并将在大学或其他适当的场所举行会议，以加深教师的知识或报告研究结果。这项提议是过去两年为高中教师举办的荣誉研讨会的产物。作为一名研究生物学家，PI非常有资格执行这项计划，但也有指导教师发展活动的经验。其他工作人员是来自该大学的研究生物学家。来自私营部门的生物技术专家将担任演讲者和顾问。

This Teacher Enhancement project will increase the expertise of 20 high school biology teachers per year in the areas of biotechnology, biological research, problem solving and scientific writing. These twenty teachers will return to their schools, following a 6-week summer program, to enrich their instructional program, to provide inservice experiences for their colleagues, and to exert leadership in curriculum reform and laboratory development. Teachers will be selected from school districts in the upper midwestern states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota. Follow-up activities will assist the teachers in both their instructional modifications and leadership activities. Teachers selected meet in the spring to consider their summer research project with the appropriate college faculty. The project is planned and partially developed by the time they arrive for the summer. During the summer, in addition to working on their project, they attend seminars on contemporary topics in biology and develop activities for their own classrooms related to both the research activities and seminars. In addition, they will develop the outline for the inservice activities which they will conduct. During the academic year, university staff will make visits to the participant's schools and conferences will be held at the University or other appropriate settings to further the knowledge of teachers or to report research results. The proposal is an outgrowth of an honors workshop for high school teachers conducted in the past two years. The PI is well-qualified to conduct the program, being a research biologist, but also having prior experience in directing teacher development activities. The other staff are research biologists from the University. Experts in biotechnology from the private sector will be used as speakers and consultants.