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Starting a High School Biotechnology Program | Articulation between High School and College | Articulation between Two-Year and Four-Year Programs | Evaluating an Existing College Program | Conferences for Educators | Evaluating and Improving Curriculum | Preparing Students for the Workforce | Skill Standards Starting a High School Biotechnology Program The resources below may be useful for teachers exploring how to start a high school vocational biotechnology program. The result of three years of researching, planning and developing biotechnology programs, this information was originally presented at the National Association of Biology Teachers Conference in Montreal, November 2001, by Mary Glodowski (Juanita High School), Connie Kelly (Shorewood High School) and Tracy Stoops (Shorewood High School).
Articulation between High School and College Tech Prep courses are an example of a Vocational Technical introduction to biology and biotechnology for high school students. Shoreline Community College offers a Tech Prep Course through Shorewood and Juanita High Schools: The Biotechnology Articulation Guidelines were developed to assist students as they consider pursing studies in the field of Biotechnology. These guidelines identify the concepts and skills at the high school level that prepare students to enter a biotechnology course of study at either a community or four-year college. The guidelines present ten biotechnology articulation areas, the specific skills associated with each area, and a description of how these skills would be used in the workplace. Articulation between Two-year
and Four-year Programs Evaluating an Existing College Program The following Gap Analysis completed by Shoreline Community College can be used to assess existing programs against the Skill Standards. The following gap analysis completed by Seattle Pacific University can be used to assess existing biotechnology programs at the four year college level: Evaluating and Improving Curriculum
Preparing Students for the Workforce Internships Internships with local laboratories, both academic and industry, help students bridge the gap between education and the working world.
Work-Based Learning Projects and Capstone Projects Skill standards provide information on what individuals need to know and be able to do to succeed in the biotechnology workplace. They can be used as reference material for content and assessments to add to current curriculum or create new curriculum. Skill standards for two areas within the field of Biotechnology are presented below. The following documents show a Summary of Work (Template A on the first page of the PDF) and the Skill Standards (Template B on the remaining pages of the PDF): There are sample job descriptions, job titles and scenarios to provide a context for the skill standards:
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