Exploring Computation Integrated into Technology and Engineering II

霍夫斯特拉大学将领导CSfor All High School Strand研究员从业者伙伴关系(RPP)：探索集成到技术和工程中的计算II(Excite II)。技术与工程(T&amp；E)教师一般没有准备好教授计算机科学(CS)，但他们几乎在全国每个学区任教，并为所有学生提供服务。Excite I与马里兰州和弗吉尼亚州的教师团队一起开展了一项教师专业发展(PD)试点计划。Excite II将为T&amp；E教师和教育领导者提供全方位的PD研讨会，他们服务于九个州(佐治亚州、北卡罗来纳州、宾夕法尼亚州、特拉华州、路易斯安那州、密苏里州、北达科他州、新泽西州和明尼苏达州)的不同学生，作为使T&amp；E教师能够在全国范围内提供合理的高级计算机科学原理(AP CSP)教学的原型。该项目将针对黑人和西班牙裔学生人数较多或占多数的学区和学校。该项目旨在利用与文化相关的教学法来满足代表性不足人群的需求，并构成该项目促进发展努力的支柱，这将有助于创造一个公平的课堂环境。Excite II的使命是实施一种可复制的模式，通过为全国电工学生提供合理的AP CSP教学，扩大CS的参与。将创建9个州RPP，以展示在全国范围内可扩展实施T&Amp；E HS教师招聘和PD计划的潜力。该项目将使用亲身实践的计算机控制工程设计挑战来激发学生在学习计算机科学原理时的高度参与度。RPP框架将使从业者能够使用强大的分析工具，如Strategic CSforALL资源和实施规划工具(SCRIPT)流程，从CS中代表性不足的群体中招收学生，并确保每个州RPP的共同结果。该项目将协调其州一级的努力与扩大的计算机教育途径联盟(ECEP)的努力。该项目将特别关注黑人和西班牙裔学生群体，旨在为地理、经济、种族和种族不同的学区的数千名学生提供CS教学。在项目支持两年后，每个项目州都会建立一个州内的支持和实施团队，以便在未来继续招聘和培训教育与教育教师。在国家科学基金资助周期结束后，国际技术和工程教育工作者协会将继续开展该项目的工作，这些州包括等待名单上的州，以及通过国家传播讲习班招募的另外20个州。该项目将研究和评估PD、实践社区持续支持系统、计算机控制和机器人活动对CS教学和学习的影响，对黑人和西班牙裔学生的招募、激励和留住，以及对T&A；E教师的参与和身份。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。

Hofstra University will lead a CSforAll High School Strand Researcher Practitioner Partnership (RPP): Exploring Computation Integrated into Technology and Engineering II (ExCITE II). Technology and Engineering (T&E) teachers have generally not been prepared to teach computer Science (CS), yet they teach in virtually every one of the nation’s school districts and serve all student populations. ExCITE I conducted a teacher professional development (PD) pilot program with teams of teachers in Maryland and Virginia. ExCITE II will offer a full spectrum of PD workshops for T&E teachers and education leaders who serve diverse students in nine states (Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, New Jersey, and Minnesota) as a prototype for enabling T&E teachers nationwide to provide pedagogically sound advanced placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) instruction. The project will target districts and schools with large or majority populations of Black and Hispanic students. The project has been designed to use culturally relevant pedagogy to meet the needs of underrepresented populations and form the backbone of the Project’s PD efforts, that will lead to on the creation of an equitable classroom environment. The mission of ExCITE II is to implement a replicable model to expand CS participation by providing pedagogically sound AP CSP instruction for T&E students nationwide. Nine state RPPs will be created that will demonstrate the potential for scalable implementation of a recruitment and PD program for T&E HS teachers nationally. The Project will use hands-on computer-control engineering design challenges to stimulate high student engagement when learning about computer science principles. The RPP framework will enable practitioners to use powerful analytical tools such as the Strategic CSforALL Resource & Implementation Planning Tool (SCRIPT) process to recruit students from groups underrepresented in CS and ensure common outcomes in each of the state RPPs. The Project will coordinate its state-level efforts with that of the Expanding Computer Education Pathways Alliance (ECEP). The Project will intentionally focus on Black and Hispanic student populations as it aims to offer CS instruction to thousands of students in geographically, economically, ethnically, and racially diverse school districts. The use of an on-ramping evolutionary process ensures that after two years of Project support, every Project state would develop an in-state support and implementation team to continue the recruitment and training of T&E teachers into the future. The International Technology and Engineering Educators Association will sustain the work of the Project after the conclusion of the NSF funding cycle with wait-listed states, and 20 additional states recruited as a result of a National Dissemination Workshop. The Project will research and evaluate the impact of the PD, the Community of Practice ongoing support system, and the computer control and robotic activities on CS teaching and learning, on the recruitment, motivation, and retention of Black and Hispanic students, and on the engagement and identities of T&E teachers.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.