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FROM SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY:
A ROUND TRIP
Cinzia Grazioli
CusMiBio, Milan – Italy
AN INTERACTIVE AND SYNERGISTIC LINK BETWEEN MOTIVATED
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AND UNIVERSITY
RESEARCHERS
CUSMIBIO FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS
•filling the GAP
•recover motivation & social role
International
conctacts Hands-on
activities
Tutorials
Sharing of experiences Accountable sources
Lifelong
learning
Suggestions for
IBSEStudy groups
CUSMIBIO FOR HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS
•for a more conscious choice in University studies
CUSMIBIO HAS DEDICATED LABS
IN THE MILAN STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
These labs are an integral part of the
Lombardy school system
A WEEK AS A RESEARCHER
Annual competition for motivated students
CUSMIBIO FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
for a future in science
A dream-postcard from
Cambridge 2005
Conference The Future of Science
Venice 2013: a dream comes true!!
RESULTS
The project greatly excited all the students involved and also their
school teachers!
The results obtained were published in a Science and Society
correspondence in EMBO Reports (EMBO Reports 9, 3, 208
2008).
WANNABE A RESEARCHER: ATTEND A TOP SCIENCE PROJECT
to keep tight contacts with the talented students selected
through the annual contest
to combine professional quality research with a novel strategy
for research-based undergraduate education
FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF EVOLUTION, LOOKING FOR NEW GENES
STUDENTS IN NEW INITIATIVES?
From CusMiBio to School
Kits (materials, handbook, protocols, teacher manual etc..)
that can be “borrow” from CusMiBio and taken to school
FROM SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY:
A ROUND TRIP
From School to CusMiBio
Try the biolab: hands-on activities for High School students
at the CusMiBio Laboratories
AN INTERACTIVE AND SYNERGISTIC TANDEM
TO DESIGN INNOVATIVE HANDS-ON LEARNING PRACTICES IN
BIOLOGY
The most motivated and skilled students, are invited together with their
teachers to set-up kits and learning modules adapted to be transferred to
their schools.
Both are actors of the project
Together they develop the theoretical and practical activities to be proposed
to their peers and this generates a virtuous circle
A positive reciprocal feedback
The collaboration starts during the training course where the different stake-
holders, i.e. students, teachers and scientists come in close contact.
TRAINING FOR
TEACHERS AND THEIR STUDENTS
How to use the kits at school
DNA PROFILING
•construct a real life crime scene investigation, collect evidence
and find the incriminating evidence
•perform DNA analysis to obtain molecular identikits for human
genotypic identification.
IBSE approach
Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH)Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH)
Peer-to-peer teaching:
•engages students and inspires their peers;
•helps students to motivate each other and delve deeper
into science;
•develops a wide range of complementary skills, such as
work in groups, self-confidence
A ROUND TRIP
Tutor Students Results
This approach facilitates productive
interactions and dialogue within peers and
helps in breaking the intimidating “teacher-
student” barrier
you learn a lot when you have to
teach others
•acquisition of additional knowledge to manage the
topics with the required competence;
•creation of the most favorable conditions for
cooperation, exchange of materials and experiences
within and between schools
.
FROM SCHOOL to UNIVERSITY:
A ROUND TRIP
Teachers Results
DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL NETWORKS
•identification of pilot schools (provided with some kind of lab
space and equipment) that can act as reference labs for all
the schools of a given area
To expand the project
KIT DIFFUSION IN ITALY
........ AND EUROPE
International Summer School
Diving into Molecular Biology
