ARC: Building Awareness, Respect, and Confidence through Genetics

 描述（由申请人提供）：目前基因组学的革命正在改变医疗保健。让不同的社区参与是释放改善人类健康机会的关键一步。哈佛医学院的个人遗传学教育项目（pgEd）向公众介绍了解一个人的基因组以及相关的伦理、法律的和社会影响所带来的好处。 通过遗传学建立意识，尊重和信心（ARC）是pgEd与桑福德研究所合作的一项提案，旨在缩短科学突破进入课堂的时间轴。总体目标是使所有学科的教师能够在高中和更广泛的社区内就个人遗传学的前沿科学和社会发展进行对话。这将通过讨论基因组技术的机遇和社会影响，提高基因组素养和提高认识、尊重、兴趣和信心。 首先，ARC将建立一个以探究为基础的，创新的，跨学科的课程，重点是遗传学，身份和尊重多样性。扩展的课程将包括跨越学术边界的材料，并反映最新和最引人注目的研究。主题将包括：1）性别和性别2）种族和祖先3）智力和行为4）基因编辑和基因组修改5）动物的去灭绝和基因修改6）太空探索和遗传学。这些共同核心和NGSS对齐的教学工具将改变课堂讨论，促进批判性思维，并说明科学事业可以是研究或医学，也可以是法律，教育，历史或生物伦理学。 第二，ARC创建专业发展培训，种子传播我们的课程，最初在城市马萨诸塞州（MA）和农村南达科他州（SD）社区。重点培训来自服务不足社区的教师，我们寻求提供高质量，有影响力的培训，鼓励协作和跨课程教学。通过培训250名教师，我们预计这些影响将渗透到学生，学校和更广泛的社区，推进我们的目标，即让参与和知情的民众准备好探索个人遗传学的好处和影响。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current revolution in genomics is transforming healthcare. Engaging diverse communities is a key step towards unlocking the opportunities for improving human health. The Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) at Harvard Medical School informs the public about the benefits that can come from knowing one's genome as well as the related ethical, legal, and social implications. Building Awareness, Respect, and Confidence through Genetics (ARC) is a proposal from pgEd in partnership with Sanford Research that aims to shorten the timeline for breakthroughs in science to make their way into the classroom. The over-arching goal is to empower teachers across all disciplines to stimulate dialogue about cutting-edge scientific and social developments in personal genetics within high schools and the broader community. This will lead to increased genomic literacy and increased awareness, respect, interest and confidence via discussion about the opportunities and societal implications of genomic technologies. First, ARC will build an inquiry-based, innovative, and transdisciplinary curriculum focusing on genetics, identity, and respect for diversity. An expanded curriculum will include materials that cross academic borders and reflect the newest and most compelling research. Topics will include: 1) sex and gender 2) race and ancestry 3) intelligence and behavior 4) gene-editing and genome modification 5) de-extinction and genetic modification of animals 6) space exploration and genetics. These Common Core and NGSS-aligned teaching tools will transform classroom discussions, promote critical-thinking, and illustrate that a career in science can be research or medicine, but also law, education, history or bioethics. Second, ARC creates professional development trainings to seed dissemination of our curriculum, initially in urban Massachusetts (MA) and rural South Dakota (SD) communities. With an emphasis on training teachers from underserved communities, we seek to provide high quality, impactful trainings that encourage collaborative and cross-curricular teaching. By training 250 teachers, we anticipate the impacts will trickle down to students, schools, and the broader community, advancing our goals of an engaged and informed populace ready to explore the benefits and implications of personal genetics.