Fellows-Teachers Partnerships

High School Biology Teacher/ Biomedical Graduate Student 'Teaching Fellow' Partnership

Under the guidance of University of North Texas Health Science Center faculty mentors and experienced Fort Worth Independent School District teachers, role model Graduate Fellows incorporate basic scientific, health/biomedical, and technological advances into laboratory sessions and offer tutoring and mentoring to students as directed by teachers with whom they are teamed.

Fellows are selected annually through competitive application from the UNTHSC body of biomedical science graduate students and are matched in pairs with a FWISD high school biology teacher in one of the four schools designated to participate in Project SCORE. In return for a stipend, Fellows must contribute a minimum ten hours of classroom time per week for the nine month school year while presenting enhanced laboratory curriculum when possible. Fellows may apply to continue participation for subsequent years.

Project SCORE also funds equipment installed in these participating classrooms which enables all students to view interactive science resource internet web-sites, computer software and live microscope images together as a group. These advanced technological tools have improved overall learning environments and facilitated the enhanced scientific curriculum resources provided by Teaching Fellows.