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Program Director:
Dr. Forrester Lee
Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs, Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Office of Multicultural Affairs
PO Box 208036
New Haven, CT 06520
2037857545
Woody.Lee@yale.edu
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As an urban Academic Health Center, Yale School of Medicine is committed to providing learning environments for young people in New Haven by which "human potential can be fully realized." The objectives of this project are:
1) to improve educational outcomes for high school students by enhancing and enriching students' science content knowledge and skills and by encouraging learning and study strategies that involve critical thinking and problem-solving abilities;
2) to enhance and enrich students' attitudes towards science learning and schooling by providing exposure to experiences and mentoring relationships that empower and motivate;
3) to improve classroom teaching by developing new, integrated curricular resources and providing ongoing teacher professional development activities;
4) to identify, mobilize and focus the resources of a major academic health center in support of onging teacher professional development activities and science education in an urban high school system in a manner that most appropriately matches resources with need.
These objectives will be accomplished through the SCHOLAR Program:
1) student participation from Grades 9-12 in a problem-based learning (PBL), integrated science curriculum, research and medical internships, and mentoring activities;
2) teacher development activities which will include ongoin training in the use of PBL in the classrooom, access to educational resources at the medical school, and training in research laboratory settings with Yale faculty,; and
3) cross-cutting activities that will include the development of a longitudinal, integrated PBL science curriculum aligned to curricular standards, development of computer-based learning resources and classroom materials correlated to the PBL curriculum, implementation of a multidisciplinary authentic student assessment.
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