BPC-DP: A Planning Grant for Establishing UTeach-CS

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校提出了一项计划拨款，将其计算机科学系和UTeach计划结合在一起，以创建UTeach-CS。 UTeach始于德克萨斯大学，作为培养中学科学，数学和计算机科学教师的新方法。这是自然科学和教育学院之间的独特合作，支持想要教书的本科生，想要返回认证的大学毕业生，寻找支持社区的新教师，以及想要高级学位的经验丰富的教师。它被证明是如此有效，现在正在美国各地的大学复制。然而，很少有计算机科学专业的学生参加。 这项计划拨款将做初步工作，在UT-奥斯汀建立一个UTeach-CS计划，并帮助在其他大学复制它。特别是，成果包括（1）如何更好地市场UTeach和教学专业CS学生和IT专业人士的理解，（2）UTCS学士学位的发展？的学位计划，更好地适应UTeach证书，（3）复制我们的UTeach-CS计划在得克萨斯州内的复制站点的前景和挑战的理解，（4）CS课程的培训数学和科学的学生谁不是CS专业和培训高中教师谁没有认证教CS的探索，以及（5）在第一年之后发展UTeach-CS并将其复制到UTeach研究所支持的其他机构的计划。这一努力与CISE CS/10 K的目标一致，即到2015年大幅增加美国高中计算机科学教师的数量。

The University of Texas, Austin proposes a planning grant to bring its Computer Science Department and UTeach program together with the goal of creating UTeach-CS. UTeach started at The University of Texas as a new way to prepare secondary science, math and computer science teachers. It is a unique collaboration between the Colleges of Natural Sciences and Education, supporting undergraduates who want to teach, college graduates who want to return for certification, new teachers looking for a supportive community, and experienced teachers who want an advanced degree. It has proven to be so effective that it is now being replicated at universities across the United States. Yet few Computer Science students participate. This planning grant will do preliminary work to establish a UTeach-CS program at the UT-Austin and to help replicate it at other universities. In particular, the outcomes include (1) an understanding of how to better market UTeach and the teaching profession to CS students and IT professionals, (2) the development of a UTCS Bachelor?s degree plan that better accommodates the UTeach certificate, (3) an understanding of the prospects and challenges of replicating our UTeach-CS program to replication sites within Texas, (4) the exploration of CS curricula for training math and science students who are not CS majors and for training high school teachers who are not certified to teach CS, and (5) a plan for growing UTeach-CS beyond this first year and for replicating it to other institutions supported by the UTeach Institute. This effort is in alignment with the CISE CS/10K goal of dramatically increasing the number of US high school computer science teachers by the year 2015.