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

RAPID：促进 CS-10K 实践测试平台社区

• 批准号: 1250783
• 负责人: Daniel Garcia
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1250783&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Facilitating; CS; 10K; Community

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.

加州大学伯克利分校提议支持 CS10K 项目的新兴在线实践社区 (CoP)。 CS 10K 是一项变革性计划，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) 正在资助许多为这些课程开发专业发展 (PD) 模型的项目，到 2012 年秋季，将有多达 500 名教师接受某种形式的这种 PD。其中许多教师将于今年秋季开始教授这些课程，但会发现自己作为学校中唯一的计算机科学教师而有些孤立。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，它将作为未来 CoP 开发的测试平台。该提案旨在创建并监督一个技术工作组 (TWG)，协助初始测试平台 CoP 的内容和操作，使其不断完善并最终发展成为支持所有计算机教师的工具。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) 让当前 NSF 资助的 CS 10K PD 的领导者参与贡献内容并培育在线互动，(2) 向 CoP 开发人员提供反馈和建议，以及 (3) 实时响应正在收集的有关 CoP 如何使用以及它如何满足或不满足教师需求的数据。