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

加州大学伯克利分校提议为CS10K项目支持新兴的在线实践社区（CoP）。CS 10K是一项转型计划，旨在招募、准备和培训10,000名高中教师，教授两门新的计算机课程：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名教师参加某种形式的PD。这些教师中的许多人将在今年秋天开始教授这些课程，但他们会发现自己是学校里唯一的计算机科学教师，因此有些孤立。为了更好地支持他们并为他们提供一个持续的学习社区，正在开发一个在线CoP，作为未来CoP开发的测试平台。该提案旨在创建和监督一个技术工作组（TWG），在初始测试平台CoP经过改进并最终发展成为支持所有计算机教师的工具的过程中，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CoP工作的影响：(1)让目前nsf资助的CS 10K PD的领导者参与贡献内容和在线互动；(2)向CoP的开发者提供反馈和建议；(3)实时响应收集到的关于CoP如何使用以及它如何满足或不满足教师需求的数据。

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.