TEACHING BIOLOGY THROUGH IMMUNOLOGY FELLOWSHIPS

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：该计划的目标 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， 传播基于实验室研究的课程材料， 加强中学科学教育。 一个重要目标是 针对少数民族教师或少数民族学校的教师， AAI成员致力于实现这些目标。 此外，研究人员希望 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的可见度， 美国免疫学家协会年会。 具体而言是 该计划旨在为中学提供研究奖学金 教师在活跃的免疫学研究实验室工作。 预计 这种经验将提高他们的教学技能和科学 知识，使这些最新的基本概念，在健康科学 （特别是免疫学）可以更好地融入目前的课程。 由于充分的创新练习说明了 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课程计划 经验，并制定他们与课程专家的帮助。 的 调查人员还计划扩大这一计划，包括教育， 导师对教师的合理期望， 实验室，以及改变他们的态度，他们的作用， 科学教育改革。 他们建议举办导师工作坊， 有效的伙伴关系和培养积极的态度 参与这些方案。 通过在专业人员之间建立联系， 科学家和中学教师，他们希望培养一个持续的 这种关系不仅将促进科学教育，而且将 促进公众对科学和基础研究作用的理解 在改善健康方面。 他们将评估的假设是， 研究经验将为教师/研究员带来新的 对科学的热情，这将被翻译（通过他们的车辆， 新课程练习）在免疫学综合教学方面， 以及增加学生在科学课程的入学率， 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.