TEACHING BIOLOGY THROUGH IMMUNOLOGY FELLOWSHIPS

描述(摘自申请者的摘要)：本项目的目标 是在专业科学家之间建立工作伙伴关系， 中学教师和课程专家开发和 以实验室研究为基础，分发课程材料， 加强中学科学教育。一个重要的目标是 针对少数族裔教师或少数族裔学校的教师进行配对 AAI成员为实现这些目标而努力。此外，调查人员希望 通过以下途径促进AAI成员参与科学教育计划 辅导讲习班和提高教师活动在 美国免疫学家协会年会。具体地说， 该计划旨在为中学提供研究奖学金。 教师在主动免疫学研究实验室工作。这是意料之中的 这一经历将提高他们的教学技能和科学 了解健康科学中的最新基本概念 (特别是免疫学)可以更好地融入当前课程。 由于足够多的创新练习说明了基本的 原理和概念/n免疫学不是普遍可用的， 教师将被要求根据他们的实验室制定教案。 经验，并在课程专家的帮助下制定它们。这个 调查人员还计划将这一计划扩大到包括教育 导师对教师在教学中的合理期望 实验室以及改变他们对自己在 科学教育改革。他们提议举办导师研讨会，以促进 有效的伙伴关系和发展积极的态度 参与这些项目。通过在专业人员之间提供链接 科学家和中学教师，他们希望培养一种持续的 这种关系不仅会刺激科学教育，而且还会 促进公众对科学的理解和基础研究的作用 在改善健康方面。他们将评估的假设是，这是 研究经验将为教师/研究员带来新的 对科学的热情，这将转化为(通过他们的工具 新课程练习)在免疫学综合教学方面，AS 以及增加理科课程的学生入学人数，并追求 科学事业。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from applicant's abstract): The goal of this program is to establish a working partnership among professional scientists, secondary school teachers, and curriculum specialists to develop and disseminate curriculum materials, based on laboratory research, which enhance secondary school science education. An important objective is to target minority teachers or teachers in minority-rich schools to pair with AAI members toward achieving these goals. Further, the investigators wish to promote participation in science education programs by AAI members via mentoring workshops and increased visibility of teachers' activities at the American Association of Immunologists annual meeting. Specifically, the program is designed to provide research fellowships for secondary school teachers to work in active Immunology research laboratories. It is expected that this experience will enhance their instructional skills and scientific knowledge so those up-to-date fundamental concepts in health science (especially Immunology) can be better integrated into current curriculum. Since sufficient innovative exercises illustrating the fundamental principles and concepts/n Immunology are not generally available, the teachers will be required to develop lesson plans based on their laboratory experience, and formulate them with the aid of curriculum specialists. The investigators also plan to extend this program to include the education of the mentors as to reasonable expectations for the teachers in their laboratory as well as to change their attitudes regarding their role in science education reform. They propose mentors' workshops to promote effective partnerships and the development of positive attitudes towards participation in these programs. By providing linkage among professional scientists and secondary school teachers, they expect to foster a continuing relationship that will not only stimulate science education, but will also promote the public understanding of science and the role of basic research in improving health. The hypothesis that they will evaluate is that this research experience will engender for the teacher/fellows a renewed enthusiasm for science, which will be translated (via the vehicle of their new curriculum exercises) in terms of integrated teaching of Immunology, as well as increased student enrollment in science courses, and the pursuit of scientific careers.