BPC-DP: Partnering Middle School Teachers with Undergraduate Computer Science Teams to Bring Computing to Underrepresented Youth

特拉华大学(UD)建议中学教师与计算机科学本科生合作，将计算带给代表性不足的年轻人。UD的学生将与切斯特社区特许学校(CCCS)的老师合作，帮助他们在课堂上更有效地使用XO笔记本电脑。为了能够在整个课程中有效地使用技术，学校需要可持续的战略来帮助教师变得足够有知识和足够的信心来开展基于计算的活动。这个项目，计算-团队-4-青年，建立在以前与CCCS的工作基础上。它利用本科生的服务学习机会，支持教师将计算和计算思维整合到中学数学、科学、语言艺术和社会研究中。计算团队-4-青年将(1)发展计算思维活动，增加中学基于计算的学习的协作和差异化学习活动，(2)为UD CS专业的学生提供服务学习课程，由CCCS教师匹配的协作开发团队在同行领导的带领下开发XO学习活动，并根据真实客户的反馈应用良好的软件工程实践，(3)为教师定制持续软件和专业开发？学生学习目标，每两年举办两次以教师为重点的培训和合作讲习班。本科生在精心指导的软件开发团队中工作，他们将从协作学习、与真实客户的软件工程实践、同行领导经验以及亲身体验他们的计算专业知识在帮助他人方面的潜在影响中受益。教师将得到急需的支持，中学生将受益于更多地接触计算机和计算思维，增加他们对计算的兴趣。

The University of Delaware (UD) proposes to partner middle school teachers with undergraduate computer science students to bring computing to underrepresented youth. The UD students will work with teachers from the Chester Community Charter School (CCCS), helping them to more effectively use XO laptops in their classrooms. To be able to use technology effectively across the curriculum, schools need sustainable strategies to help teachers become knowledgeable enough and confident enough to run computing-based activities. This project, Computing-Teams-4-Youth, builds on previous work with CCCS. It uses undergraduates in service learning opportunities to suppport teachers' integration of computing and computational thinking into middle school math, science, language arts, and social studies. Computing-Teams-4-Youth will (1) develop computational thinking activities and increased collaborative and differentiated learning activities for computing-based learning in middle school, (2) provide a service learning course for UD CS majors, with collaborative development teams matched with CCCS teachers and led by peer leaders to develop XO learning activities and apply good software engineering practice with feedback from a real client, and (3) build continuous software and professional development customized to teachers? student learning goals, with biannual teacher-focused workshops for training and collaborating. The undergraduates, working in carefully mentored software development teams, will gain from collaborative learning, software engineering practice with a real client, peer leader experiences, and an opportunity to experience first-hand the potential impact of their computing expertise in helping others. The teachers will get much needed support, and the middle school students will benefit from increased exposure to computers and computational thinking, increasing their interest in computing.