GK-12 at Baylor College of Medicine

贝勒医学院（tCM）和休斯顿独立学区（HISD）提议合作BCM研究生科学家和HISD生物教师，以改善生物学的教与学，同时为研究生提供提高教学相关技能的机会。该项目将在BCM研究生和15名被选中的HISD教师之间建立指导的、目标导向的伙伴关系，为所有96名HISD生命科学高中教师提供新的专业发展，并为所有HISD中学生举办科学、数学、工程和技术职业意识活动。将在一所HISD学校建立一个生物科学学习中心，以实物形式支持项目活动。BCM的研究生科学家将有机会提高自己的教学技能、K-12教育知识以及向新手受众传播科学信息的能力。项目评估将调查研究生个人科学教学范式和信念的变化，研究生教学和沟通技能的发展，科学教师内容知识的变化以及学生科学学习和成就的变化。每年，拟议的活动将通过研究生/教师合作关系每年影响400多名生物学学生，并通过教师专业发展影响所有8,000名参加生物学课程的学生。

Baylor College of Medicine (tCM) and the Houston Independent School District (HISD), propose to partner BCM graduate student scientists and HISD biology teachers to improve teaching and learning in biology, while providing opportunities for graduate students to improve their teaching-related skills. The project will create guided, goal-oriented partnerships between BCM graduate students and 15 selected HISD teachers, provide new professional development for all 96 HISD life sciences high school teachers and produce science, mathematics, engineering and technology career awareness events for all HISD secondary students. A Biosciences Learning Center will be established at an HISD school to support project activities as an in-kind contribution. BCM graduate student scientists will have opportunities to improve their own teaching skills, their knowledge of K-12 education and their abilities to communicate science information to novice audiences. Project evaluation will investigate changes in graduate students' personal science teaching paradigms and beliefs, to development of graduate students' teaching and communications skills, to changes in science teachers' content knowledge and to changes in student science learning and achievement. Each year, proposed activities will impact more than 400 biology students annually through graduate student/teacher partnerships, and all 8,000 students enrolled in biology classes through teacher professional development.