PATHS

健康科学的真实教学途径（PATHS）是一个为期五年的项目 旨在建立卫生知识和技能，并辅之以文化上敏感的透镜。 PATHS将为历史上服务不足的农村和城市地区的教师和学生提供 社区对各种教育轨迹和机会的职业意识 由卫生专业人员（医学实验室科学，PT和OT，辐射科学， 牙科卫生）。PATHS将雇用60名中学教师（7至12年级）， 在提供课程和教学支持（专业）的示范计划中工作10年 发展）的指导下，文化响应的做法。我们的目标是支持教师和 最终学生在学习卫生专业的技能和内容时， 健康的社会决定因素（SDH），并发展其处理大型数据集的能力 通过与精准健康相关的医疗工具。课程工具将基于网络 模块化单位，以解决卫生专业、SDH和精确卫生等五个领域的问题， 将提供内容丰富和基于调查的职业和健康所需的技能 适用于科学、卫生/体育、职业和技术的专业 教育教室。教师将参加两个暑期学院， 学年后续会议和虚拟辅导。项目组沿着弗吉尼亚号 地区健康教育中心（AHEC）将支持教师和他们的学生分享 他们在社区健康博览会，STEM博览会和其他学生研究会议上学习。 PATHS将包括形成性和总结性评价。形成性评价 将使用仅治疗组的方法来衡量 暑期研究所和课程工具。总结性评估将涉及一个 准实验设计，比较治疗和控制教师。教师将 匹配使用倾向得分匹配，以增加设计的严谨性。调查和焦点小组 面试将被用来衡量教师和学生的学习和新技能的发展。 如果PATHS计划成功地实现了这些目标，提高了人们的认识， 学生和教师之间的理解，我们预计增加招生计划， STEM-H和提高对医疗保健问题的理解。

Pathways for Authentic Teaching of Health Sciences (PATHS) is a five year project designed to build health literacy knowledge and skills supported by a culturally responsive lens. PATHS will provide teachers and students in historically underserved rural and urban Virgnia communities with career awareness for the various educational trajectories and opportunities provided by health professions (Medical Lab Sciences, PT and OT, Radiation Science, and Dental Hygiene). PATHS will engage 60 secondary teachers (grades 7 through 12) over four years in a model program that provides curriculum and pedagogical support (professional development) guided by culturally responsive practices. Our aim is to support teachers and ultimately students in learning about the skills and content of health professions, the impact of social determinants of health (SDH), and to develop their ability to work with large data sets through medical tools related to precision health. The curriculum tools will be web-based modularized units to address five areas of health professions, SDH, and precision health and will provide content-rich and inquiry-based exposure to careers and skills necessary for health professions that are applicable to science, health/physical education, and career and technology education classrooms. Teachers will participate in two summer institutes with support during school-year follow-up sessions and virtual coaching. The project team along with the Virginia Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) will support teachers and their students with sharing their learning at Community Health Fairs, STEM Fairs, and other student research conferences. PATHS will include both formative and summative evaluation. The formative evaluation will use a treatment-group-only approach to gauge the development and implementation of the summer institute and curricular tools. The summative evaluation will involve a quasi-experimental design to compare treatment and control teachers. Teachers will be matched using propensity score matching to increase the design rigor. Surveys and focus group interviews will be used to measure teacher and student learning and development of new skills. If the PATHS program is successful in accomplishing these aims and increasing awareness and understanding among students and teachers, we anticipate increased enrollment in programs in STEM-H and an improved understanding of health care issues.