Minority K-12 Initiative for Teachers and Students (MKITS)

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。沃斯堡科学与历史博物馆（Fort Worth Museum of Science and History）和社区机构北侧合作理事会（North Side Partners Council）也参与了此次合作。MKITS计划的目标是金字塔中以西班牙裔为主的小学、初中和高中，这些学校与联合国环境与安全委员会合作收养学校已有20多年。UNTHSC的教师和学生将为K-12年级的学生提供科学教育内容，特别强调4-11年级的学生。学生们将有机会参加暑期科学训练营，加入初级医学和科学家俱乐部，并在UNTHSC校园参加学年高中领班。家庭将参加在北区合作伙伴理事会设施和博物馆举行的双语家庭夜间会议，加入学习生物医学科学的机会和他们的孩子可以参加的科学活动的过程。教师和研究生助理团队将参加为期一周的TOOLS课程，旨在为科学教学提供新技术，然后在学年期间加入课堂上进行科学实验。教师将被鼓励在UNTHSC申请暑期研究实习，该项目由正在进行的德克萨斯州生物技术研究项目资助。UNTHSC的毕业生、公共卫生和医学专业的学生将举办周末学院，担任4-12年级学生的导师和导师，评判科学展览项目，并讨论学生在生物医学科学领域的职业道路。该计划将由内部和外部评估人员对标准化考试成绩的改善、大学预科课程的选择以及最终的大学申请和入学进行评估。

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.