Building Capacity for Assuring High Quality, Licensed Computer Science Teachers across Hawai’i

该项目旨在满足国家增加合格和有执照的计算机科学教师人数的需要。夏威夷州是太平洋地区技术创新的中心，全州所有公立高中都提供计算机科学课程。随着越来越多的小学、初中和高中计算机科学课程的建立，需要增加合格的、有执照的计算机科学教师的数量。该项目旨在为计算机科学或数学专业的大学生提供计算机科学教育许可证的框架。项目小组将确定在一个少数民族学生占多数的州，一个文化上敏感的计算机科学课程所需的关键组成部分。凭借其建立的在线学习基础设施，该大学打算最初开发一个可以在线或面对面访问的课程，这可能会通过消除往返檀香山校园的障碍来增加获得证书课程的机会。该项目还侧重于建设未来招聘和留用的能力，使成功的全州联盟能够扩大规模，产生更广泛的影响。 夏威夷大学马诺阿分校是一所公立教学和研究型大学，该项目将与夏威夷州唯一的学区夏威夷教育部合作。该项目的目标是通过开发五门课程的计算机科学教育证书课程的基础设施，为计算机科学和数学专业的学生提供一条获得K-12计算机科学教学许可证的途径。本项目旨在增加内容知识，教学内容知识，文化支持知识和教学实践，以符合K-12计算机科学教学标准。通过这个项目获得的知识可以指导未来的研究和干预措施，旨在提高个人的愿望和能力的代表性不足的群体追求计算机科学教学。该项目包括一个由内容专家、教育合作伙伴、行业合作伙伴、教师教育学院专家和计算机科学学院专家组成的咨询委员会。 该委员会将评估新的教师准备方案的发展，以确定它是否在夏威夷的内容和背景下是健全的。由此产生的课程和开发过程将在地方和国家教育会议上分享。这个能力建设项目是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national need of increasing the number of qualified and licensed computer science teachers. The state of Hawai‘i, a hub for technologically innovation in the Pacific, offers computer science in all public high schools throughout the state. As more elementary, middle, and high school computer science courses are established, an increase is needed in the number of qualified, licensed computer science teachers. The project seeks to provide a framework for licensure in computer science education for college students majoring in computer science or mathematics. The project team will determine critical components needed in a culturally responsive computer science curriculum in a state that has a majority of minority students. With its established online learning infrastructure, the university intends to initially develop a curriculum that can be accessed online or face-to-face, which may increase access to the certificate program by removing the barrier of commuting to the Honolulu-based campus. The project also focuses on building capacity for future recruitment and retention that will allow successful statewide alliances to be scaled up for broader impact. This project at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, a public teaching and research university, will partner with the Hawai’i Department of Education, the sole school district in the state of Hawai’i. The project goal is to build capacity to provide a pathway for computer science and mathematics majors to obtain licensure to teach computer science in K-12 through developing the infrastructure for a five-course computer science education certificate program. It is the intent of this project to increase content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, culturally sustaining knowledge, and pedagogical practices to align with the K-12 computer science teaching standards. The knowledge gained through this project may guide future research and interventions designed to enhance individual aspirations and capacity of underrepresented groups to pursue computer science teaching. The project includes an advisory board of content experts, education partners, industry partners, teacher education faculty experts, and computer science faculty experts. This Board will evaluate the development of the new teacher preparation program to determine if it is sound in both content and context for Hawai‘i. The resulting curriculum and development process will be shared at local and national education conferences. This Capacity Building project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.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.