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

BPC-DP：用于建立 UTeach-CS 的规划拨款

• 批准号: 0959827
• 负责人: Calvin Lin
• 金额: $ 15.35万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0959827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; DP; Planning; Grant; Establishing

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.

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校提议提供一笔规划拨款，将其计算机科学系和 UTeach 项目整合在一起，以实现创建 UTeach-CS 的目标。 UTeach 始于德克萨斯大学，是一种培养中学科学、数学和计算机科学教师的新方法。这是自然科学学院和教育学院之间的独特合作，为想要教学的本科生、想要回国获得认证的大学毕业生、寻找支持社区的新教师以及想要获得高级学位的经验丰富的教师提供支持。事实证明，它非常有效，目前正在美国各地的大学进行复制。然而，很少有计算机科学专业的学生参与其中。 这笔规划拨款将用于在 UT-Austin 建立 UTeach-CS 项目并帮助在其他大学复制该项目进行初步工作。具体成果包括 (1) 了解如何更好地向 CS 学生和 IT 专业人士推销 UTeach 和教学专业，(2) 制定更好地适应 UTeach 证书的 UTCS 学士学位计划，(3) 了解将我们的 UTeach-CS 项目复制到德克萨斯州复制地点的前景和挑战，(4) 探索 CS 课程，以培训非 CS 专业的数学和科学学生，以及 培训没有获得 CS 教学资格的高中教师，以及 (5) 在第一年之后发展 UTeach-CS 的计划，并将其复制到 UTeach 学院支持的其他机构。这项工作符合 CISE CS/10K 的目标，即到 2015 年大幅增加美国高中计算机科学教师的数量。