CS10K: C-START: Colorado - STrategic Approach to Rally Teachers

CS10K：C-START：科罗拉多州 - 召集教师的战略方法

• 批准号: 1543231
• 负责人: Tracy Camp
• 金额: $ 99.85万
• 依托单位: Colorado School of Mines
• 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: 2015-10-15 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1543231&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CS10K; START; Colorado; STrategic; Approach

The Colorado School of Mines (CSM), in partnership with the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), proposes a project to improve the skills of existing computer science (CS) teachers, share best practices in CS pedagogy, and positively change the diversity of students in existing and new CS courses in Colorado. The project -- called C-START (Colorado: STrategic Approach to Rally Teachers) -- will create high-quality professional development (PD) opportunities, empower, and support more than 50 high school teachers, enabling them to teach a progression of CS courses, from the introductory level through Advanced Placement® (AP) CS. These opportunities will leverage recent efforts for K-12 CS PD and best practices in broadening participation in computing developed by the BPC-A Alliances and other NSF Broadening Participation in Computing projects. More specifically, C-START will: -- Create two academic certificates for CS teachers at the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at UNC,-- Incorporate computational thinking skills into the educational technologies requirement at UNC, -- Re-energize the only CSTA Chapter in Colorado, -- Introduce an undergraduate Service Learning course at CSM that will engage students in K-12 CS education, and -- Develop a tiered mentoring program for high school teachers who teach CS.The effectiveness of C-START's approach will be measured by teacher outcomes: Does engaging in C-START have a positive impact on high school teachers' CS content knowledge, confidence that they can teach CS, attitudes toward CS, and knowledge in engaging underrepresented students in CS? Lastly, C-START will be sustainable, in order to ensure the PD opportunities and planned support for teachers will continue after the grant period ends.

科罗拉多矿业学院(CSM)与北科罗拉多大学(UNC)合作，提出了一个项目，旨在提高现有计算机科学(CS)教师的技能，分享CS教学法的最佳实践，并积极改变科罗拉多州现有和新的CS课程的学生多样性。该项目名为C-Start(科罗拉多州：团结教师的战略方法)，将创造高质量的职业发展(PD)机会，授权并支持50多名高中教师，使他们能够教授从入门到Advanced Placement®(AP)CS的一系列CS课程。这些机会将利用最近为K-12 CS PD所做的努力，以及在扩大由BPC-A联盟开发的计算参与方面的最佳实践，以及其他NSF扩大对计算项目的参与。更具体地说，C-Start将：--为北卡罗来纳大学教育与行为科学学院的CS教师创建两个学术证书，--将计算思维技能纳入北卡罗来纳大学的教育技术要求，--重振科罗拉多州唯一的Csta分会，--在CSM引入一门本科生服务学习课程，让学生参与K-12 CS教育，以及--为教授CS的高中教师开发分级指导计划。C-Start方法的有效性将通过教师成绩来衡量：参与C-Start对高中教师的CS教学知识是否有积极影响，他们有信心教授CS，对CS的态度，以及让未被充分代表的学生参与CS的知识？最后，C-Start将是可持续的，以确保PD机会和对教师的计划支持在资助期结束后继续下去。