Minority K-12 Initiative for Teachers and Students (MKI*

描述（由申请人提供）：北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心-沃斯堡（UNTHSC）生物医学科学研究生院和公共卫生学院将与沃斯堡独立学区（FWISD）合作实施NHLBI MKITS计划。 加入合作的是沃斯堡科学和历史博物馆，以及北区合作伙伴理事会，一个社区机构。 MKITS计划将针对金字塔中以西班牙裔为主的小学、初中和高中，这些学校已经与UNTHSC合作了20多年。 联合国人类住区中心的教师和学生将为K-12年级的学童提供科学教育内容，特别强调4-11年级。 学生将有机会参加夏季科学靴子训练营，加入初级医生和科学家俱乐部，并在联合国人类住区中心校园参加学年高中教师培训。 家庭将参加在北侧合作伙伴理事会设施和博物馆举行的双语家庭之夜会议，参加有关生物医学科学机会和子女可参加的科学活动的学习过程。 教师和研究生助理团队将参加为期一周的工具课程，旨在提供科学教学的新技术，然后在学年期间加入，在课堂上展示科学实验。 教师将被鼓励申请夏季研究实习在UNTHSC，通过得克萨斯州生物技术研究计划的持续状态资助。 联合国人类住区中心的毕业生、公共卫生和医科学生将举办周末学术活动，担任4-12年级学童的导师和导师，评判科学博览会项目，并讨论学童在生物医学科学方面的职业道路。 该计划将评估标准化考试成绩表现的改善，大学预科课程的选择，并最终，大学申请和入学由内部和外部评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth (UNTHSC) Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and School of Public Health will implement a NHLBI MKITS program in collaboration with the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD). Joining in the collaboration is the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, and the North Side Partners Council, a community agency. The MKITS program will target a predominantly Hispanic elementary, middle and high school strand of a pyramid, whose schools have been Adopt-A-School partners with the UNTHSC for over twenty years. UNTHSC faculty and students will provide science education components to school children in grades K-12, with special emphasis on grades 4-11. School children will earn an opportunity to attend summer science boot camps, join junior medic and scientist clubs, and engage in academic year high school preceptorships at the UNTHSC campus. Families will attend bi-lingual family night meetings at the North Side Partners Council facilities, and at the Museum, to join in the learning process about opportunities in the biomedical sciences and about science activities available to their children. Teams of teachers and graduate assistants will attend a week-long TOOLS Course designed to provide new techniques for teaching science, and then join during the academic year to present science experiments in the classroom. Teachers will be encouraged to apply for summer research internships at the UNTHSC, funded through an ongoing State of Texas Biotechnology Research Program. UNTHSC graduate, public health and medical students will conduct weekend academies, serve as tutors and mentors to school children in grades 4-12, judge science fair projects, and discuss career paths available to school children in the biomedical sciences. The program will be evaluated for improvements in standardized test score performance, selection of college preparatory curriculum, and ultimately, college applications and enrollments by both an internal and external evaluator.