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Educational outreach initiatives at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston ease the burdens on life science teachers, especially those in under-funded school districts. “We live in an era of increased accountability and pressure on schools, especially in districts that do not have the funds to provide teachers with needed professional development,” said Dr. Nancy Moreno, an associate professor in Baylor’s Center for Educational Outreach. “Baylor is helping to address these needs in biology, one of the most rapidly changing areas in science today.” BioEd Online (http://www.bioedonline.org), an educational website produced by Baylor’s Center for Educational Outreach, provides middle and high school science teachers with a wide array of free instructional resources, such as slide sets, streaming video presentations, and laboratory activities. The site assists biology teachers who are trying to balance hectic schedules and numerous responsibilities by offering accurate, current information, reinforced by lessons and web-based materials that address important and timely issues like nutrition and obesity, biodiversity, and mad cow disease. Many of these resources can be downloaded and implemented within an hour of class time. “There are neither dollars nor time these days for adequate professional teacher development in all schools,” said Deanne Erdmann, senior project manager for the Center for Educational Outreach. “And because the biological sciences change so rapidly, life science teachers need help to keep up.” “Providing teaching resources online represents the next step for Baylor’s educational outreach activities,” said Moreno, who noted that BioEd Online now hosts more than 30,000 user sessions per month, even with only limited promotion since its January launch. “We have done a lot of face-to-face teacher professional development, but we cannot meet the needs of every teacher that way. The only way for us to serve a broader audience is to take advantage of web-based distance learning technology.” Indeed, life science presents a unique educational challenge because of the sheer magnitude of research in the field: an estimated 500,000 articles are indexed by the National Library of Medicine each year. Baylor’s Center for Educational Outreach has a long history of conducting numerous “live” teacher professional development workshops that reach about 1,000 K-12 teachers annually at various sites throughout the United States. Now, through BioEd Online, the center is hoping to reach a much larger audience. In collaboration with Texas A&M University and the Houston Endowment, Inc., Baylor’s Center for Educational Outreach also is developing an online alternative teacher certification pathway for scientists who wish to pursue careers in secondary school classrooms. In addition, the center works with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute and combines space themes with health and life science to pique interest among students in elementary and middle schools. BioEd Online also provides bioscience content with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and National Center for Research Resources. Through all these initiatives, the center strives to bridge the gap between the growing demand for quality education and the dwindling supply of resources required to meet this demand. “Biology is a critical area that must be addressed very seriously with kids,” said Erdmann, who points out that students who do not go on to college have limited opportunities to learn life science basics. “After students leave high school, they are going to become responsible citizens, who must make important decisions. One of our goals is to help them make solid, informed choices about their educational pathway and personal health.” -Nov 17, 2004
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