BEST Program: Bioengineering Experience for Science Teachers

理科教师生物工程经验最佳计划 摘要 伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校理科教师的生物工程经验是 于2016年首次提供，为芝加哥公共部门提供合作的夏季研究机会 学校(CPS)工程预科和科学教师。在教职员工的指导下 工程学院和教育学院，教师参与生物工程研究 实验，并利用这些经验为自己的课堂创建课程。追求最好的目标 该计划旨在提高城市公立高中理科教师的技能，使他们能够 更有效地向学生传达生物工程的本质。教师可以选择 在康复工程的各种研究机会中，生物异常材料、生物医学 成像、微流体、生物材料和再生医学。最好的课程排在6位 在生物工程研究实验室的教师，并采用实践社区模式来 支持开发生物工程课程，供教师课堂使用。这项建议 计划通过扩展分析来评估课程改进来增强最佳计划 从计划前的基线开始，在课程期间评估课堂上的教师 实施，并加强最好的教师传播他们的经验和 课程面向更广泛的受众。最好的计划是为支持 合适的生物工程内容教材，将科学知识转化为 具体的课程图、教学材料和课堂评估 共同核心国家标准CCSS和下一代科学标准NGSS。就像它所做的那样 已被广泛证明，教师的影响力可以是学生职业兴趣的一个重要因素， 最佳计划旨在提供有效的专业发展，以提高教师的 生物工程内容和教学知识，最终增加 生物工程师。

Bioengineering Experience for Science Teachers “BEST” Program ABSTRACT The Bioengineering Experience for Science Teachers at the University of Illinois at Chicago was first offered in 2016 to provide a collaborative summer research opportunity for Chicago Public School (CPS) pre-engineering and science teachers. Under the guidance of faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Education, teachers participate in a bioengineering research lab and use the experience to create a curriculum for their own classrooms. The goal of the BEST program is to enhance the skills of urban public high school science teachers and enable them to more effectively communicate the nature of bioengineering to their students. Teachers can choose among diverse research opportunities in rehabilitation engineering, bionanomaterials, biomedical imaging, microfluidics, biomaterials, and regenerative medicine. The BEST program places six teachers in bioengineering research laboratories and employs a Community of Practice model to support development of bioengineering curricula for use in the teachers’ classrooms. This proposal plan enhances the BEST program by expanding the analysis to evaluate curriculum improvement from a pre-program baseline, evaluating teachers in the classroom during curriculum implementation, and strengthened avenues for BEST teachers to disseminate their experience and curricula to a broader audience. The BEST program is scaffolded to support the development of appropriate teaching materials of bioengineering content which translates scientific knowledge into specific curriculum maps, instructional materials, and classroom assessments that are aligned with Common Core State Standards CCSS and Next Generation Science Standards NGSS. As it has been widely shown that teacher influence can be a significant factor in student career interests, the BEST program aims to provide effective professional development to increase teacher’s bioengineering content and pedagogical knowledge to ultimately increase the pipeline of bioengineers.