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

特拉华州大学（UD）提议将中学教师与计算机科学专业的本科生合作，将计算带给代表性不足的年轻人。UD学生将与切斯特社区特许学校（CCCS）的教师合作，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，学校需要可持续的策略来帮助教师变得足够知识和足够自信来运行基于计算的活动。这个项目，Computing-Teams-4-Youth，建立在以前与CCCS的工作基础上。它利用大学生的服务学习机会，以支持教师的计算和计算思维到中学数学，科学，语言艺术和社会研究的整合。Computing-Teams-4-Youth将（1）开发计算思维活动，并为中学基于计算的学习增加协作和差异化学习活动，（2）为UD CS专业提供服务学习课程，协同开发团队与CCCS教师匹配，并由同行领导者领导，开发XO学习活动，并应用真实的客户反馈的良好软件工程实践，以及（3）建立持续的软件和专业发展定制的教师？学生的学习目标，每两年举办一次以教师为中心的培训和合作研讨会。在精心指导的软件开发团队中工作的本科生将从协作学习，与真实的客户端的软件工程实践，同行领导者经验中获益，并有机会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。教师将得到急需的支持，中学生将受益于增加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.