Exploring Computation Integrated into Technology and Engineering II

霍夫斯特拉大学将领导一个CSforAll高中研究从业者合作项目（RPP）：探索计算集成到技术和工程II （ExCITE II）。技术和工程（T&amp；E）教师通常还没有准备好教授计算机科学（CS），然而他们实际上在全国每个学区任教，为所有学生服务。ExCITE I与马里兰州和弗吉尼亚州的教师团队一起开展了教师专业发展（PD）试点项目。ExCITE II将为9个州（乔治亚州、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t&e教师和教育领导者提供全方位的PD研讨会，作为使全国t&e教师能够提供教学上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占多数的地区和学校。该项目旨在使用与文化相关的教学法来满足代表性不足的人群的需求，并形成项目PD工作的支柱，这将导致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，通过为全国的科技学生提供教学上合理的AP CSP教学来扩大CS的参与。将创建9个州rpp，以展示在全国范围内为教育卫生教师招聘和PD计划可扩展实施的潜力。该项目将使用实际操作的计算机控制工程设计挑战，以激发学生在学习计算机科学原理时的高参与度。RPP框架将使从业者能够使用强大的分析工具，如战略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募学生，并确保每个州RPP的共同成果。该项目将与扩展计算机教育途径联盟（ECEP）协调其州一级的努力。该项目将重点关注黑人和西班牙裔学生群体，因为它旨在为地理、经济、民族和种族多样化学区的数千名学生提供计算机科学教学。采用渐进式发展过程确保在两年的项目支持后，每个项目州都将建立一个州内支持和实施团队，以继续招聘和培训未来的教育和教育教师。国际技术和工程教育工作者协会将在国家科学基金资助周期结束后，与候选国家以及通过国家传播讲习班招募的另外20个国家一起维持该项目的工作。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计算机科学教学的影响，对黑人和西班牙裔学生的招聘、激励和保留，以及对计算机科学教师的参与和身份的影响。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。

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.