Bringing Research Into the Classroom (BRIC):BUILDING THE BIOMEDICAL PIPELINE: A

描述(由申请人提供)：让学生参与真实的研究体验，并为教师配备必要的知识、技能和工具，以在课堂上领导研究，这对于增加通往生物医学领域的管道至关重要。 将研究带入课堂(BRIC)项目直接与NCRR的目标保持一致，NCRR的目标是为基础、行为和临床研究领域发展多样化的管道，并通过利用专注于噬菌体发现学科特定研究的强化教师专业发展计划，在与健康相关的问题上教育社区。通过装备教师在课堂上促进密集的研究体验，金砖四国项目旨在建立一个教师领袖遗产，他们将为他们的学生提供真正的科学机会。 金砖四国项目建立在蒙大拿州理工学院吞噬计划和Cfwep.Org(前身为克拉克·福克流域教育计划)之间长达七年的合作努力基础上。这两个项目在科学教育推广工作中都有经过证明的记录。这两个项目加在一起，已经覆盖了2万多名学生和300名教师。这两个非常成功的项目设计了金砖四国项目，这是一个新的项目，提供密集的教师专业发展和科学家的课堂访问相结合。该项目的总体目标是为教师提供知识、技能和性格，为学生提供高质量的健康科学研究机会。 该项目针对教师的具体目标是：1)增加教师的科学内容知识，特别是与噬菌体发现研究有关的知识；2)增加教师的教学技能，并在课堂上加强特定学科的研究实践；以及3)。为教师提供有意义的、有吸引力的专业发展，让教师在暑假期间参与一个严谨的研究问题。对于学生来说，该项目旨在：1)增加学生的内容知识，特别是与噬菌体发现研究相关的知识；2)提高学生对健康科学职业的认识以及他们对健康科学的态度和倾向；以及3)让学生参与相关的、有意义的课堂研究体验。 金砖四国项目负责人将在所有参与教师的教室内提供噬菌体发现研究课程。来自蒙大拿理工大学的科学家们在本科生的陪同下，领导了为期三天的噬菌体发现项目，也就是人们所知的“吞噬”。教师参加密集的暑期培训讲习班，其中包括针对特定学科的研究内容和课堂教学方法。项目领导人制定了一项实验设计，以便与教师和学生单独进行课堂访问相比，检查专业发展与课堂访问相结合的效果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Engaging students in authentic research experiences and equipping teachers with the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools essential to lead research within the classroom is critical for increasing the pipeline leading to biomedical fields. The Bringing Research into the Classroom (BRIC) project directly aligns with the NCRR goals of development of a diversified pipeline for basic, behavioral and clinical research fields, and to educate the community on health-related issues by utilizing an intensive teacher professional development program focusing on discipline-specific research in bacteriophage discovery. By equipping teachers to facilitate intensive research experiences within their classrooms, the BRIC project aims to build a legacy of teacher leaders who will provide authentic science opportunities for their students. The BRIC project is built upon seven years of collaborative efforts between the Montana Tech Phagedigging Program and Cfwep.Org (formerly known as the Clark Fork Watershed Education Program). Both programs have proven track records in science education outreach efforts. Combined the two programs have reached over 20,000 students and 300 teachers. These two highly successful programs have designed the BRIC project, a new program to provide intensive teacher professional development combined with in-class visits by scientists. The overall project goal is to equip teachers with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to provide high quality health science research opportunities for students. The project's specific aims for teachers are to: 1) Increase teacher science content knowledge especially as related to phage discovery research; 2) Increase teacher pedagogical skills, and discipline-specific research practices within the classroom; and 3). Provide meaningful, engaging professional development for teachers that engages teachers in a rigorous research question during the summer. For students, the project aims to: 1) Increase student content knowledge especially as related to phage discovery research; 2) Improve student awareness of health sciences careers as well as their attitudes and dispositions toward the health sciences; and 3) Engage students in relevant, meaningful classroom research experiences. The BRIC program leaders will provide phage discovery research curriculum within all participating teacher's classrooms. Scientists from Montana Tech, accompanied by undergraduate students, lead three days of bacteriophage discovery projects, also known as "phagedigging". Teachers engage in intensive summer training workshops that include discipline-specific research content and pedagogical approaches for the classroom. The project leaders have developed an experimental design in order to examine the effect of professional development combined with classroom visits as compared to classroom visits alone for both teachers and students.