Dr. Joel Goodman and Shannon Ma at the Partners in Science meeting.
The goal of National Jewish Health’s Summer Research Program for High
School Educators (SuRP) is to enhance student interest and success in
the biologic sciences by providing authentic research opportunities for
high school biology teachers. Teachers spend 8 weeks each summer working in a research laboratory at National Jewish Health.
In particular, the program hopes to target under-served and minority student populations.
The application due date is February 15, 2012.
Learn more about the program.
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Professional Development
The program includes a weekly professional development series during the summer. This includes:
Students get a boost in math, science from teacher program
Biology teacher Chantel Maybach goes to school an extra eight weeks each year, since being chosen to attend the Summer Research Fellowship program at National Jewish Health. Read more.
- Lectures on immunology and microbiology
- Best practices in pedagogy
- Demonstrations of experiments that can be done in the classroom
- Development of an experiment based on the summer research and to be done in the classroom
- Protected time for lesson planning to incorporate the research experience into your curriculum
Outreach
The program includes outreach to the classrooms of suRP teachers. During the school year, teams of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows provide help with experiment, scientific talks, and information about careers.
