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教师从事教学职业。在过去的10年里，ECS为数千名刚开始教授计算机科学（CS）的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获得和参与CS的机会。对于这群不断增长的新一代有经验的高中教师需要什么来继续成长并在教学专业中取得成功——这些知识对于在未来几年保留和扩大CS教学队伍至关重要。项目团队将与经验丰富的计算机科学促进者和教师合作，开发一个在线专业发展计划，培训计算机科学教师在物理计算方面的技能，以及在计算机科学教学中解决公平问题的教学法技能。新开发的在线专业发展课程将在两年的课程中交付给有兴趣的ECS教师。将分析这项工作的结果，并开展案例研究，收集教师和引导者的经验。宾夕法尼亚大学、俄勒冈大学和教育发展中心（EDC）之间的这个合作项目旨在让探索计算机科学（ECS）教师社区参与进来，以确定有经验的高中ECS教师需要什么来继续成长，并继续从事教学职业。pi建议与一个由经验丰富的ECS教师组成的核心小组合作，开发一个完全在线和省时的PD模型，该模型可以处理为教师准备物理计算的挑战，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-纺织品）课程单元，将计算思维置于设计动手功能电路的个性化工艺中，以开发ECS PD。项目团队精通解决计算机科学中的公平性和多样性问题，它汇集了教师学习、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。该RPP解决了CS教育的关键目标：(1)确定有经验的ECS教师对继续学习和参与CS的需求；(2)创建和试点电子纺织品在线PD和促进物理计算；(3)研究在线促进如何扩大ECS教师的教学能力，以公平的方式解决学生的CS兴趣和观点；(4)在ECS社区内建立和扩大促进者的能力；(5)提供关于专业教师社区如何支持计算机科学教学实践的知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

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.