Collaborative Research: E-Facilitation Partnerships: Developing Scalable Online Professional Development for Expanding CS Teacher Expertise in Equity and Pedagogy with eTextiles

宾夕法尼亚大学、俄勒冈州大学和教育发展中心（EDC）将与探索计算机科学（ECS）教师社区合作，帮助有经验的高中ECS教师从事教学工作。在过去的10年里，ECS为数千名计算机科学（CS）教师提供了初步准备，重点是改善来自服务不足社区的学生对CS的访问和参与。鲜为人知的是，这个新的和不断增长的人口有经验的高中教师需要继续增长，并在教学专业知识的保留和扩大CS教学力量在未来几年取得成功。 项目团队将与经验丰富的ECS促进者和教师合作，开发一个在线专业发展计划，以培训CS教师的物理计算沿着教学技能，解决CS教学的公平性。新开发的在线专业发展计划将在两年内交付给感兴趣的ECS教师。 这项工作的成果将进行分析，并将开发案例研究捕捉教师和主持人的经验。宾夕法尼亚大学，俄勒冈州大学和教育发展中心（EDC）之间的合作项目旨在参与探索计算机科学（ECS）教师社区，以确定经验丰富的高中ECS教师需要继续成长并保持从事教学职业。PI建议与经验丰富的ECS教师的核心小组合作，开发一个完全在线和时间效率的PD模型，可以处理物理计算教师准备的挑战，同时为讨论公平问题提供支持性环境。他们将利用新发布的ECS电子纺织品（e-textiles）课程单元，将计算思维置于动手设计的个性化工艺品中的功能电路中，以开发ECS PD。该项目团队精通解决CS中的公平和多样性问题，并汇集了教师学习，计算机科学教育，在线教学设计和学习科学方面的专业知识。本方案旨在达致计算机科学教育的主要目的：（1）找出有经验的计算机科学教师在继续学习和接触计算机科学方面的需要;（2）以电子纺织品为基础，建立和试行网上计算机科学课程和物理计算课程;（3）研究网上计算机科学课程如何能提升教师的教学能力，以公平的方式照顾学生的计算机科学兴趣和观点;（4）在ECS社区内建立和扩大促进者能力;（5）为专业教师社区如何支持CS教学实践的知识做出贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The University of Pennsylvania, the University of Oregon, and the Education Development Center (EDC) will partner with the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) teacher community to help keep experienced high school ECS teachers engaged in the teaching profession. In the last 10 years, ECS has provided initial preparation to thousands of teachers new to teaching computer science (CS) with a focus on improving access and participation to CS for students from underserved communities. Little is known about what this new and growing population of experienced high school teachers needs to continue to grow and succeed in the teaching profession—knowledge critical for retaining and expanding CS teaching force in coming years. The project team will partner with experienced ECS facilitators and teachers to develop an online professional development program to train CS teachers in physical computing along with pedagogy skills that addresses equity into CS teaching. The newly developed, online professional develop program will then be delivered to interested ECS teachers over the course of two years. Outcomes from this work will be analyzed and case studies capturing teacher and facilitator experiences will be developed. This collaborative project between The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Oregon, and The Education Development Center (EDC) seeks to engage the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) teacher community to determine what experienced high school ECS teachers need to continue to grow and stay engaged in the teaching profession. The PIs propose to partner with a core group of experienced ECS teachers to develop a fully online and time efficient PD model that can handle the challenges of preparing teachers in physical computing while providing a supportive context for discussing equity issues. They will leverage the newly released ECS curriculum unit on electronic textiles (e-textiles), which situates computational thinking within designing functional circuitry in hands-on, personalized crafts, to develop ECS PD. The project team is versed in addressing issues of equity and diversity in CS, and it brings together expertise in teacher learning, computer science education, online instructional design, and learning sciences. This RPP addresses the critical goals for CS education: (1) identify needs of experienced ECS teachers for continued learning and engagement with CS; (2) create and pilot online PD and facilitation for physical computing with e-textiles; (3) examine how online facilitation can expand ECS teachers’ pedagogical capacities for addressing in equitable ways students’ CS interests and perspectives; (4) build and scale facilitator capacities within the ECS community; and (5) contribute to knowledge on how professional teacher communities can support CS pedagogical practices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.