CS 10K: Developing and Supporting Computer Science Teachers Via Strategic Partnering

特拉华州大学提出了Partner 4CS，这是一个为初中和高中计算机科学教师设计和评估一套全面的专业发展机会的项目。特拉华州和其他许多州一样，没有计算机科学教师资格证书、CSTA分会，也没有为计算机科学教师做准备的明确教育路径。Partner 4CS旨在规避这些问题。该项目组建了一支跨学科团队--包括计算机科学、数学教育和教育研究学科的大学教师和本科生--拥有强大的工程外展和评估资格。该小组将开发（1）一个三轨暑期专业发展学院，将6 -12岁的教师和高中学生聚集在一起，进行技能发展、教学法和社区建设;（2）一个在线学习环境，为教师提供即时获得教学和课程支持的机会，并提供与其他教师和大学教师定期交流的手段;（3）一个新的学院服务学习1学分课程每周交替本科服务，以教师在课堂上与大学课堂会议的规划和反思;和（4）每季度周六上午教师工作坊G6-12教师和学生继续整个学年的夏季专业发展。精心指导的本科生将协助这些计划，反过来从跨学科合作，教学和课程规划中获得，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。他们的服务也可能有助于改善代表性不足的学生在大学和高中两级参与计算的情况。Partner 4CS将建立在CS PI在与中学教师合作计算机科学本科生服务学习方面的经验基础上，并建立在教育PI与地区学校建立的教育学生教学经验伙伴关系基础上。它将利用两个大学的数学教育主要要求采取计算机科学，以及特拉华州大学的时间取代其目前的CS 0课程CS原则在2012年秋季。

The University of Delaware proposes Partner4CS, a project to design and evaluate a comprehensive set of professional development opportunities for middle and high school computer science teachers. Delaware, like many other states, does not have teacher certification in computer science, CSTA chapters, or a defined educational path that would prepare computer science teachers. Partner4CS aims to circumvent these problems. The project brings an interdisciplinary team -- including university faculty and undergraduates from the computer science, math education, and educational research disciplines -- that has strong engineering outreach and evaluation credentials. The team will develop (1) a 3-track summer professional development institute bringing together G6-12 teachers and high school students for skills development, teaching pedagogy, and community building; (2) an online learning environment that provides teachers with instant access to pedagogical and curricular support and means to communicate regularly with other teachers and university faculty; (3) a new college service learning 1-credit course weekly alternating undergraduate service to teachers in the classroom with college classroom sessions for planning and reflection; and (4) quarterly Saturday morning teacher workshops for G6-12 teachers and students to continue the summer professional development throughout the academic year. Carefully mentored undergraduates will assist in these programs, in turn gaining from interdisciplinary collaboration, teaching and lesson planning, and the opportunity to experience first-hand the potential impact of their computing expertise in helping others. Their service may also contribute to an improvement in the participation of underrepresented students in computing at the both the college and at the high school levels. Partner4CS will build on the CS PIs' experience in partnering computer science undergraduates in service learning with middle school teachers and on the Education PIs' established partnerships with regional schools for education student teaching experiences. It will leverage both the university's math education major requirement of taking computer science, and the timing of the University of Delaware replacing its current CS0 course by CS Principles in Fall 2012.