Guidelines for Profiles and Classroom Activities

Profiles and classroom activities are materials written by TIES participants that become resources for the TIES program and for the teaching community at large.  They are available to download from this site.

Profiles:

• Each pair of teachers generates two profiles: one about the basic research experience, and one about the clinical research experience.  Pairs may  decide whether they write the profiles collaboratively or individually.
• The audience for the profile is the middle school classroom.
• The profile should not exceed 8 pages (and can be much shorter!)
• The profile should try find an interesting angle or question to address, rather than being a journal-entry style piece of writing.
• The profile should have an engaging title.
• Please indicate whether you are happy to have your name associated with the profile you write by choosing whether or not you put it on the document.  Profiles will be publicly available from the TIES website.
• A final draft of each profile should be e-mailed to scied@ohsu.edu by the end of the TIES summer program.

Classroom activities:

• Each teacher pair generates a classroom activity that is based in some way on the TIES experience.
• Preliminary ideas for classroom activities are presented at the end of the 3-week summer session.
• TIES participants are expected to develop and trial their classroom activities over the course of the year, presenting and receiving feedback from other TIES participants at the first and second call back days (in January and April). There are funds for developing these activities under the small grant program.
• Final classroom activities, which  include lesson plans as well as other resources (worksheets, articles, web links etc.) are due by the end of the school year that follows the summer program.