What are
Curriculum Development
Fellowships?
APS Curriculum Development (CD) Fellowships offer
teachers the opportunity to further develop their mentoring, technology,
and curriculum development skills. CD
Fellows are selected from past participants of the Frontiers
in Physiology and/or the Explorations
in Biomedicine Professional Development Fellowships. The CD fellowship
begins in December and continues through April of the following year.
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Links... |
| Frontiers in Physiology is a program of the American
Physiological Society (APS), and is sponsored by APS, the
National Center for
Research Resources (NCRR),
Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health. |
| Explorations in Biomedicine is supported by a grant from the
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of
General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program. |
| National Science Education Standards |
| Project WISE |
| 2000 CD Fellows |
Program Highlights
Meet the current and past CD Fellows at the links to the
left. CD Fellows work in teams to develop a unit for Project WISE,
a free on-line science learning environment for students and teachers
created by University of California-Berkeley. Through these units,
students learn about and respond to contemporary scientific controversies
by designing, debating, and critiquing solutions.
Two APS projects are currently featured in the WISE project library. The “Organic Foods Controversy” (.pdf) was developed by the 2000 CD Fellows team of Nancy Kellogg and Cathy Box. The latest APS unit added to the WISE Project Library is "The Sense of Touch" (.pdf) which was developed and written by Lisa Bidelspach and Charlie Geach, 2001 CD Fellows.
In the process of field-testing and revision are two units one on the
sense of taste and the other on
natural dyes and Native American arts.
Other unit topics under development include: cell membranes, vision and
perception, and plant tropisms.
What
do
CD Fellows do?
CD Fellows serve as Mentors
for Frontiers in Physiology and Explorations in Biomedicine
Research Teachers (RTs). The
mentoring process begins early in the new RTs’ fellowship year,
beginning with online discussions and continues through the fellowship year. CD Fellows serve
as Instructors for the Science Teaching Forum, modeling effective
teaching strategies, sharing their experiences, and leading RTs in
curriculum development and discussions on their written reflections. CD
Fellows develop online,
interactive, inquiry-based science activities using the Project
WISE website.
These
life science activities align with the National
Science Education Standards (NSES) and are geared towards middle
school and high school students. Working in teams, the
CD Fellows develop their online unit in
conjunction with Project WISE staff, APS staff, and APS
physiologists. CD Fellows
attend anOrientation/Training meeting
and the RT Science
Teaching Forum. CD Fellows may also be invited to
present their online activities to colleagues at workshops during
the Experimental Biology and/or the National Association of Biology Teachers annual meetings.
What Benefits
and Funding
do CD Fellows
Receive?
CD Fellows receive stipends during the course of the fellowship period; reimbursements
for travel expenses to attend meetings, and authorship of their unit.
The CD
Fellowship begins in December and continues
through April of the following year.
