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

BPC-DP：中学教师与本科计算机科学团队合作，为代表性不足的年轻人带来计算

• 批准号: 0940501
• 负责人: Lori Pollock
• 金额: $ 58.64万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-11-15 至 2014-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0940501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; DP; Partnering; Middle; Teachers

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.

特拉华大学（UD）提议将中学教师与计算机科学专业的本科生合作，将计算机带给代表性不足的年轻人。特拉华大学的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的知识和足够的信心来开展基于计算机的活动。这个名为Computing-Teams-4-Youth的项目建立在CCCS之前的工作基础之上。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。Computing-Teams-4-Youth将(1)在中学开展计算思维活动，增加基于计算的学习的协作和差异化学习活动；(2)为马里兰大学计算机科学专业的学生提供服务学习课程，由与CCCS教师相匹配的协作开发团队在同行领导的带领下开展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)为教师定制持续的软件和专业发展？学生的学习目标，每年两次以教师为中心的培训和合作讲习班。大学生们在经过精心指导的软件开发团队中工作，将从协作学习、与真实客户的软件工程实践、同行领导经验中获益，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。老师们将得到必要的支持，中学生也将受益于更多地接触计算机和计算思维，增加他们对计算机的兴趣。