RAPID: Facilitating a CS-10K Community of Practice Testbed

加州大学伯克利分校提议为CS10K项目支持一个新兴的在线实践社区(COP)。CS 10K是一项变革性的计划，旨在吸引、准备和培训10,000名高中教师教授两门新的计算课程：探索计算机科学和CS原理。美国国家科学基金会(NSF)正在资助一些项目，这些项目正在为这些课程开发专业发展模式(PD)，到2012年秋季，将有多达500名教师接受某种形式的PD。这些教师中的许多人将在今年秋天开始教授这些课程，但他们会发现，作为学校里唯一的计算机科学教师，自己在某种程度上是孤立的。为了更好地支持它们，并为它们提供一个持续不断的学习社区，正在开发一个在线缔约方会议，作为今后缔约方会议发展的试验台。这项提议旨在创建和监督一个技术工作组，在最初的试验床COP经过完善并最终成长为支持所有计算教师的工具时，协助其内容和操作。这项工作将通过以下方式最大限度地发挥缔约方会议努力的影响：(1)让目前由NSF资助的CS 10K PD的领导人参与贡献内容和提供在线互动，(2)向缔约方会议的开发者提供反馈和建议，以及(3)实时回应正在收集的关于如何使用缔约方会议以及它如何服务于或不服务于教师需求的数据。

The University of California at Berkeley proposes to support an emerging online Community of Practice (CoP) for the CS10K Project. CS 10K is a transformational initiative to engage, prepare, and train 10,000 high school teachers to teach two new computing courses: Exploring Computer Science and CS Principles. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding a number of projects that are developing models of professional development (PD) for these courses and as many as 500 teachers will have taken some form of this PD by the Fall of 2012. Many of those teachers will begin teaching these courses this fall, but will find themselves somewhat isolated as the only Computer Science teachers in their schools. To better support them and provide an ongoing learning community for them, an online CoP is being developed that will serve as a testbed for future CoP development. This proposal aims to create and oversee a Technical Working Group (TWG) that assist with the content and operation of the initial testbed CoP as it is refined and eventually grows into a tool to support all computing teachers. The work will maximize the impact of CoP effort by (1) engaging the leaders of the current NSF-funded CS 10K PD in contributing content and seeding online interactions, (2) providing feedback and suggestions to the developers of the CoP, and (3) responding in real-time to the data that is being collected on how the CoP is being used and how it serving or not serving the needs of the teachers.