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

合作研究：电子促进合作伙伴关系：开发可扩展的在线专业发展，以利用电子纺织品扩展计算机科学教师在公平和教学法方面的专业知识

• 批准号: 2031244
• 负责人: Yasmin Kafai
• 金额: $ 44.65万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031244&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; Facilitation; Partnerships; Developing

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.

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，帮助留住经验丰富的高中ECS教师从事教学工作。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，重点是改善服务不足社区的学生学习计算机科学的机会和参与程度。对于这一新的、不断增长的有经验的高中教师群体需要什么才能继续成长并在教师职业中取得成功--这是在未来几年留住和扩大CS教师队伍的关键知识--我们知之甚少。该项目团队将与经验丰富的ECS辅导员和教师合作，开发一个在线专业发展计划，以培训CS教师在物理计算以及解决CS教学公平性的教学技能方面的培训。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。将分析这项工作的结果，并制定案例研究，以获取教师和促进者的经验。这个由宾夕法尼亚大学、俄勒冈大学和教育发展中心(EDC)合作的项目旨在让探索计算机科学(ECS)教师群体参与进来，以确定有经验的高中ECS教师需要什么才能继续成长并保持对教师职业的投入。私人投资促进机构建议与经验丰富的ECS教师核心小组合作，开发一个完全在线和节省时间的PD模式，该模式可以应对为教师准备物理计算方面的挑战，同时为讨论公平问题提供支持性环境。他们将利用最新发布的电子纺织品(电子纺织品)ECS课程单元，该单元将计算思维置于设计动手的个性化工艺中的功能电路中，以开发ECS PD。该项目团队精通于解决CS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。本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)创建和试点在线PD和促进使用电子纺织品的物理计算；(3)研究在线促进如何能够扩展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能力；以及(5)促进有关专业教师群体如何支持CS教学实践的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Advancing Opportunities for CS Teachers: How To Best Support Professional Development for Experienced Teachers in K-12 CS Education

为计算机科学教师提供更多机会：如何最好地支持 K-12 计算机科学教育领域经验丰富的教师的专业发展

• DOI: 10.1145/3478432.3499218
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: roceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2022
• 作者: Kafai, Yasmin;Goode, Joanna;Twarek, Bryan;Fields, Deborah;Yadav, Aman;Logan, Linnea
• 通讯作者: Logan, Linnea

Weaving the societal and the technical into teacher experiences: Experienced computing high school teacher learning in an electronic textiles professional development session

将社会和技术融入教师经验：经验丰富的计算机高中教师在电子纺织品专业发展课程中学习

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
• 作者: Jayathirtha, G.;Fields, D. A.;Kafai, Y. B.;Chapman, G.;Goode, J.;& Shaw, M.
• 通讯作者: & Shaw, M.