CS4MS NIC: Growing Teacher Competency and Capacity

CS4MS NIC：不断提高教师的能力和能力

• 批准号: 1738377
• 负责人: Shelly Hollis
• 金额: $ 77.08万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738377&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CS4MS; NIC; Growing; Teacher; Competency

Mississippi State University (MSU) proposes a research practitioner partnership structured as a network improvement community (NIC), called CS4MS NIC: Growing Teacher Competency and Capacity, which aims to build sustainable professional development (PD) to support the long-term success of secondary computer science education in Mississippi. The CS4MS NIC will identify, develop, and deliver additional PD for teachers who provide instruction in the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) course.Mississippi has a goal of placing qualified computer science teachers in all K-12 schools by 2023-2024. Based on a needs assessment gathered from the 67 teachers currently teaching ECS as part of a Computer Science for Mississippi State pilot program, the project team has identified the need for additional computer science content training to augment the normal ECS PD. This training will provide teachers with an increased level of self-efficacy, enabling them to more confidently and proficiently teach the ECS course. In addition, the NIC will work with MSU's College of Education, Department of Computer Science, and the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) to develop a licensure for a secondary education degree with a concentration in computer science. These educators will also work to establish an endorsement pathway for in-service teachers and an alternate route for industry professionals with a desire to teach at the secondary level.

密西西比州立大学（MSU）提出了一个研究实践者的合作伙伴关系，结构作为一个网络改进社区（NIC），称为CS4 MS NIC：不断增长的教师能力和能力，其目的是建立可持续的专业发展（PD），以支持中学计算机科学教育的长期成功在密西西比。CS4 MS NIC将为在探索计算机科学（ECS）课程中提供指导的教师确定，开发和提供额外的PD。密西西比的目标是到2023-2024年将合格的计算机科学教师安置在所有K-12学校。根据从67名教师收集的需求评估，目前教ECS作为计算机科学的一部分，为密西西比州试点计划，项目组已确定需要额外的计算机科学内容的培训，以增加正常的ECS PD。这项培训将提高教师的自我效能感，使他们能够更自信，更熟练地教授ECS课程。此外，NIC将与密歇根州立大学教育学院、计算机科学系和密西西比州教育部（MDE）合作，开发一个集中在计算机科学的中等教育学位的许可证。这些教育工作者还将努力为在职教师建立一条认可途径，并为希望在中学任教的行业专业人士提供一条替代途径。