Applied Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Training for High School Teachers

加州洛斯里奥斯社区学院区正在与加州州立大学和加州大学戴维斯分校合作，为高中科学教师制定一个专业发展计划，帮助他们在生命科学和生物学课程中教授生物技术和生物信息学。该项目将为75名地区高中科学教师提供服务，他们教8000名学生。该项目还制定了一项由教师指导的实习计划，以吸引120名社区大学生从事科学教学。应用生物技术和生物信息学培训计划的目标是：(1)创建一个为期一周的夏季专业发展研讨会，培训高中教师开发和整合基于计算机的生物技术/生物信息学学习活动到他们现有的课程中；(2)为教师提供与生物技术/生物信息学相关的工作实习机会；(3)创造真实世界，基于场景的生物技术/生物信息学学习活动与科学职业相联系，(4)开发实习计划，为未来的科学教师提供实际高中科学课堂中基于技术的生物技术教学经验，(5)增加高中学生在生物学和生命科学课程中使用计算机的机会。课程将在网上分发。

The Los Rios Community College District in California is partnering with California State University and the University of California at Davis to develop a professional development program for high school science teachers to help them teach biotechnology and bioinformatics in life science and biology classes. The program will serve 75 area high school science teachers who teach 8,000 students. The project is also developing a teacher-mentored internship program to attract 120 community college students into science teaching.The goals of the Applied Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Training program are to (1) create a one-week summer professional development workshop that trains high school teachers to develop and integrate computer-based biotechnology/bioinformatics learning activities into their existing courses, (2) provide teachers with biotechnology/bioinformatics-related job shadowing opportunities, (3) create real-world, scenario-based biotechnology/bioinformatics learning activities that connect into careers in science, (4) develop an internship program that provides prospective science teachers with technology-based biotechnology teaching experiences in actual high school science classrooms, and (5) increase high school student access to and use of computers in biology and life science courses. A curriculum will be disseminated online.