Science Education Enabling Careers II (SEEC II)

20年来，UAB社区外展发展中心(CORD)一直由国家环保总局资助 研究表明，极大地增加了少数民族学生进入大学和 生物医学职业，例如，自1998年以来几乎所有的CORD暑期研究实习生(&gt；300)都有 完成/即将完成大学学业，他们中的大多数人将继续进行生物医学研究和/或毕业 临床培训和职业生涯。CORD以高中生为重点的节目吸引了 许多少数族裔学生进入了生物医学职业生涯，但受益于这些的少数族裔学生比例很低 因为在4-6年级，已经有太多的学生在学业上落后了，至少部分原因是 在四年级和六年级之间，理科成绩显著下降，大多数学生永远无法从这种下降中恢复过来。一个 造成这种影响的主要原因是，在以少数民族为主的学校里，大多数4-6年级的教师缺乏显著的 他们接受过正规的科学培训，往往没有充分意识到生物医学职业提供的巨大机会。 在SEEC II，CORD将为4-6年级的教师提供以探究为基础的强化科学培训，为他们提供 具有科学内容和实践科学经验，这将为他们的学生提供内容和技能 这将使他们对进入生物医学所需的高级课程感到兴奋，并具有竞争力 从事研究工作。SEEC II还将跨越小学/中学分界线将教师联系在一起，并将 老师们与管理人员和家长们一起，将亲身体验到询问的兴奋 学习带来了科学、阅读和数学方面的重大进步。每月一次 在会议和大型年度庆祝活动中，家长、老师和管理人员将了解 生物医学职业可以为准备充分的学生提供的机会。他们还将考虑 确保学生有能力进入这些职业所需的财政和教育步骤。 SEEC II还将扩大CORD的中学实验室和夏季科学夏令营，将4-5年级包括在内 并为教师提供非正式环境下的专业学习。在暑期训练期间，在 通过小组活动，教师们将扩展他们在 培训，他们将在自己的课堂上使用这些工具，并与小组中的其他人进行交流，以完善 这些在学年中的经历。最后，老师和4-5年级的学生将发展科学和 工程博览会类型的研究项目，他们将在学校层面和年度 开会。因此，学生们将与他们的父母分享科学带来的兴奋。知识分子 SEEC II的优点将是测试一个模式，以加强4-6年级的教师发展和垂直排列， 提供科学内容，接触生物医学科学家，培训参与性科学实验， 从而为教师的成功定位。更广泛的影响将包括一门科学的翻译和测试 教育模式，帮助少数民族学生避免中学跳槽，进入生物医学职业生涯。 项目摘要/摘要第6页

For 20 years, the UAB Center for Community OutReach Development (CORD) has conducted SEPA-funded research that has greatly enhanced the number of minority students entering the pipeline to college and biomedical careers, e.g., nearly all of CORD’s Summer Research Interns since 1998 (>300) have completed/are completing college and most of them are continuing on to graduate biomedical research and/or clinical training and careers. CORD’s programs that focused on high and middle school students have drawn many minority students into biomedical careers, but a low percentage of minority students benefit from these programs because far too many are already left behind academically in grades 4-6, due, at least in part, to a significant drop in science grades between grades 4 and 6, a drop from which most students never recover. A major contributor to this effect is that most grade 4-6 teachers in predominantly minority schools lack significant formal training in science and often are not fully aware of the great opportunities offered by biomedical careers. In SEEC II, CORD will deliver intensive inquiry-based science training to grade 4-6 teachers, providing them with science content and hands-on science experiences that will afford their students both content and skills that will make them excited about, and competitive for, the advanced courses needed to move into biomedical research careers. SEEC II will also link teachers together across the elementary/middle school divide and bring the teachers together with administrators and parents, who will experience firsthand the excitement that inquiry learning brings and the significant advancement it provides in science and in reading and math. At monthly meetings and large annual celebrations, the parents, teachers and administrators will learn about the opportunities that biomedical careers can provide for the student who is well prepared. They will also consider the financial and educational steps required to ensure that students have the ability to reach these professions. SEEC II will also expand CORD’s middle school LabWorks and Summer Science Camps to include grade 4-5 students and provide the teachers with professional learning in informal settings. During summer training, in small groups, the teachers will expand one of the inquiry-based science activities that they complete in the training, and they will use these in their classrooms and communicate with the others in their group to perfect these experiences in the school year. Finally, the teachers and grade 4-5 students will develop science and engineering fair-type research projects with which they will compete both on the school level and at the annual meeting. Thus, the students will share with their parents the excitement that science brings. The Intellectual Merit of SEEC II will be to test a model to enhance grade 4-6 teacher development and vertical alignment, providing science content, exposure to biomedical scientists and training in participatory science experiments, thus positioning teachers to succeed. The Broader Impacts will include the translation and testing of a science education model to assist minority students to avoid the middle school plunge and reach biomedical careers. Project Summary/Abstract Page 6