CS 10K: Computer Science: Creating A Village for Educators (CS:CAVE)

CS 10K：计算机科学：为教育工作者创建一个村庄 (CS:CAVE)

• 批准号: 1441068
• 负责人: Susan Yonezawa
• 金额: $ 99.98万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1441068&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CS; 10K; Computer; Science; Creating

The University of California San Diego (UCSD) proposes a project "Computer Science: Creating A Village for Educators (CS: CaVE)" to design, support, and test the efficacy and sustainability of a district-based model for scaling and providing sustained support for teacher professional development to teach the new Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles (CSP) course. CSP focuses on computer science principles, providing students with a foundational understanding of the underlying logic, grammar, thinking and communication skills, and problem-solving approaches of computational thinking. Courses and curricula meeting the AP CSP learning objectives have been piloted at a number of sites but a major obstacle persists: the lack of professional secondary school educators capable of teaching CSP effectively. Using proven curriculum and pedagogy developed through a UCSD CS Principles pilot project, CS: CaVE aims to provide a model for building, growing and sustaining a regional community of high school CS Principles teachers. It creates "villages" for educators, with district- and peer-based supports for introduction of new curricular and pedagogical content. This district-based "village" model prepares CS Principles Master Teachers within each district and develops effective, sustainable supports for new CS Principles teachers. Systemic educational change requires district-level support to be launched, incrementally scaled, and sustained. For schools and teachers, districts translate curricular change in the context of policy and administrative requirements at the local and state level. The district-based "village" model being tested and evaluated in this project develops district master teachers as well as local and distributed, in-person and virtual peer support designed to persist after external funding ends. If successful, the project will introduce and scale a new AP CS Principles course through three major secondary school districts within San Diego County. Equally important, it will create a university-connected, district-based training structure for keeping the course (and related computing courses) current as new technologies and global challenges place increasing demands on the workforce skills and knowledge needed by high school graduates.

加州圣地亚哥大学（UCSD）提出了一个项目“计算机科学：为教育工作者创建一个村庄（CS：洞穴）”，以设计，支持和测试基于地区的模型的有效性和可持续性，为教师专业发展提供可持续的支持，以教授新的高级安置（AP）计算机科学原理（CSP）课程。CSP侧重于计算机科学原理，为学生提供对基本逻辑，语法，思维和沟通技巧以及计算思维的解决问题方法的基本理解。已在一些地点试行了符合AP CSP学习目标的课程和课程，但仍然存在一个主要障碍：缺乏能够有效教授CSP的专业中学教育工作者。使用通过UCSD CS原则试点项目开发的经过验证的课程和教学法，CS：CAVE旨在为建立，发展和维持高中CS原则教师的区域社区提供一个模型。它为教育工作者建立了“村庄”，并在地区和同龄人的基础上支持引进新的课程和教学内容。这种以地区为基础的“村庄”模式在每个地区培养CS原则硕士教师，并为新的CS原则教师提供有效，可持续的支持。系统性的教育变革需要地区一级的支持，以启动，逐步扩大和持续。对于学校和教师来说，学区在地方和州一级的政策和行政要求的背景下翻译课程变化。本项目正在测试和评估的以地区为基础的“村庄”模式培养地区教师以及当地和分布式的面对面和虚拟同伴支持，旨在在外部资金结束后继续存在。如果成功的话，该项目将通过圣地亚哥县内的三个主要中学区引入和扩展新的AP CS原则课程。同样重要的是，它将创建一个与大学相连的，以地区为基础的培训结构，以保持课程（和相关的计算课程）的最新发展，因为新技术和全球挑战对高中毕业生所需的劳动力技能和知识提出了越来越高的要求。