A Continuous Coaching Model for High School Computer Science Teachers

高中计算机科学教师的持续辅导模式

• 批准号: 2122393
• 负责人: Sikha Bagui
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of West Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122393&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Continuous; Coaching; Model; Computer; Science

The United States will need more than 30,000 high school teachers qualified to teach computer science by 2025. While Florida’s Escambia County school district has recently been ramping up efforts to prepare high school teachers in the state, there is a critical need for teacher professional development opportunities. This partnership between University of West Florida, Escambia County School District (ECSD) and Florida’s Department of Education will develop ongoing support and training for current teachers such that they can successfully teach the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course, which has been shown to increase student interest and engagement in computing. Though a model of continuous coaching, this partnership will create a cohort of teachers prepared to teach the AP course. At the same time, the team will work with school guidance counselors on strategies to recruit and support students in computing classes, with the goal of increasing the number of students who enroll and are successful in computing classes. This proposal will explore a continuous support coaching model, based on Knight’s instructional coaching model, for increasing the pool of future educators without deep pre-existing content knowledge, who will be prepared to coach and teach AP Computer Science Principles (AP-CSP). The coaching model, offered by the University of West Florida’s computer science faculty, will be focused on the pedagogy of computer science, implemented using a constructivist pedagogical approach. The three areas of focus of the coaching model will include: (i) teaching assistance and feedback; (ii) just-in-time assistance offered by coaches; and (iii) lesson modeling. These new coaches and teachers, selected from in-service Math and Science teachers, will be catalysts for broadening participation of computing in Florida high schools, some of which do not yet offer a computing course, and increasing the pass-rates in AP CSP. The project aims to recruit four new coaches, seven new teachers, and seven school guidance counselors to be supported and trained by the program.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.

到 2025 年，美国将需要超过 30,000 名有资格教授计算机科学的高中教师。虽然佛罗里达州埃斯坎比亚县学区最近一直在加大力度培养该州的高中教师，但迫切需要教师专业发展机会。西佛罗里达大学、埃斯坎比亚县学区 (ECSD) 和佛罗里达州教育部之间的合作将为现任教师提供持续的支持和培训，以便他们能够成功教授先修计算机科学原理课程，该课程已被证明可以提高学生对计算的兴趣和参与度。通过持续辅导的模式，这种伙伴关系将培养一批准备教授 AP 课程的教师。与此同时，该团队将与学校辅导员合作制定招收和支持计算机课程学生的策略，目标是增加计算机课程注册和成功的学生数量。 该提案将探索基于奈特教学辅导模型的持续支持辅导模型，以增加未来教育工作者的数量，而无需深入的预先存在的内容知识，他们将准备辅导和教授 AP 计算机科学原理 (AP-CSP)。西佛罗里达大学计算机科学系提供的辅导模式将侧重于计算机科学教学法，并采用建构主义教学法来实施。辅导模式的三个重点领域包括：（i）教学协助和反馈； (ii) 教练提供及时协助； (iii) 课程建模。这些从在职数学和科学教师中选出的新教练和教师将成为佛罗里达州高中扩大计算机参与度的催化剂（其中一些高中尚未提供计算机课程），并提高 AP CSP 的通过率。该项目旨在招募四名新教练、七名新教师和七名学校辅导员，接受该计划的支持和培训。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。