Track 2, GK-12 at Baylor College of Medicine

贝勒医学院与休斯顿独立学区(HSID)合作，建立了一个为期三年的GK-12项目，旨在改善高中生命科学教育。到目前为止，该计划取得的成就包括学生和教师内容知识的增长，以及学生对科学的态度的改善。此外，这一伙伴关系使贝勒的研究人员和学生更加认识到K-12科学教育的重要性，在贝勒永久建立了一个用于K-12教育活动的生物科学资源实验室，并成功地资助了四项新的倡议，将贝勒的受训科学家直接与休斯顿的学校、教师和学生联系起来。第二轨道项目将：继续每年遴选四个同事小组；发展GK-12研究员的沟通和教学技能；通过与GK-12研究员的伙伴关系(每年四名教师)和年度专业发展系列(每年24名教师)提供教师专业发展；在国家科学基金会期间保持贝勒-HISD GK-12伙伴关系--通过改进伙伴关系模式和分阶段实施的机构承诺提供支助；以及在现有的生物教学网站上传播由GK-12研究员和伙伴教师开发的资源。通过专注于大型城市学区内的单一内容领域(生物)和年级水平范围(9-12)，贝勒的GK-12项目在改善教师知识和学生的教学体验方面取得了进展。该计划还促进了研究生科学家作为教育工作者的发展，而不影响他们的研究质量或他们毕业的时间。第二条轨道的支持将允许进一步完善和评估这一模式。贝勒和HISD都已正式承诺维持该项目，继续支持和改善HISD高中注册的40,000多名学生的生物教育。GK-12活动的重点是入学率高、STEM职业生涯中代表性不足的学生。此外，德克萨斯州的学校正在更新课程，以适应新的州评估，并满足所有高中生通过生物学毕业的要求。GK-12研究员除了作为学生的专业榜样外，还通过提供最新和深入的科学知识来提供帮助。在最先进的生物教学网站BioEd Online(www.Bioedonline.org)上传播项目产生的资源，包括串流视频演示、可下载的PDF文件和带注释的幻灯片集，将把项目的范围扩大到全国。

Baylor College of Medicine, in partnership with the Houston Independent School District (HSID), builds on a three-year GK-12 project aimed at improving high school life science education. Program accomplishments to date include studentand teacher content knowledge gains, and improved student attitudes toward science. In addition, the partnership has led to greater awareness by Baylor research faculty and students of the importance of K-12 science education, the permanent establishment of a Biosciences Resource Lab at Baylor for K-12 educational activities, and successful funding of four new initiatives that link scientists-in-training at Baylor directly to Houston schools, teachers and students. The Track Two project will: continue to select four Fellow-Teacher Teams per year; develop GK-12 Fellows' communications and teaching skills; provide teacher professional development through partnerships with GK-12 Fellows (four teachers per year) and an annual professional development series (24 teachers per year); sustain the Baylor-HISD GK-12 partnership beyond the period of NSF-support through refinement of the partnership model, and phased-in institutional commitments; and disseminate resources developed by GK-12 Fellows and Partner Teachers on an existing biology teaching website.INTELLECTUAL MERIT. By focusing on a single content area (biology) and grade-level range (9-12) within a large urban school district, Baylor's GK-12 program has been able to make progress in improving teacher knowledge and instructional experiences for students. The program also has contributed to the development of graduate student scientists as educators without affecting the quality of their research or their times to graduation. Track Two support will allow further refinement and evaluation of this model. Both Baylor and HISD have made formal commitments to sustain the project to continue to support and improve biology education for the more than 40,000 students enrolled in HISD high schools.BROADER IMPLICATIONS. The GK-12 activities focus on schools with high enrollments of students underrepresented in STEM careers. In addition, schools in Texas are updating their curricula to align with new state assessments and to meet requirements that all high school students pass biology for graduation. GK-12 Fellows are assisting by contributing up-to-date and in-depth science knowledge, in addition to serving as professional role models for students. The dissemination of project-generated resources, including streaming video presentations, downloadable PDF files and annotated slide sets, on a state-of-the-art biology teaching website, BioEd Online (www.bioedonline.org), will expand the scope of the project nationally.