Craig Buszka of Plainsboro, a physics teacher at Montgomery High School, was one of the teachers who worked with Bristol-Myers Squibb and other pharma companies to develop the RxeSEARCH program, which teaches high school students how medicines are made. Now he is one of four master teachers from New Jersey taking the program to Iowa to train teachers in that state to teach the course.##M:[more]##
The four recently finished teaching the 11-lesson curriculum to their biology and chemistry students at Montgomery High School. Now they will serve as master teachers, showing Midwestern educators how to teach the process of making medicines.
They got involved with the RxeSEARCH program three years ago, when Bristol-Myers Squibb invited them and other educators in the region to partner in an initiative designed to improve science education.
The program they developed, in collaboration with the State Department of Education and National Science Resources Center, a science education center of excellence affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences, teaches how medicines are made. The curriculum is designed to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills in high school students as well as to improve science and technology education.
