A Program to Enhance Faculty Development Through Outreach and Participation in Regional Computer Science Education Conferences

该项目是ACM计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组（SIGCSE）和小型学院计算联盟（CCSC）之间的合作成果，旨在为美国不同地区的计算机科学教师提供外展服务。这两个合作组织的首要任务是提高教师的教学技能，提高对计算机科学教育中当前问题的认识和知识，并为教师提供交流思想的机会。SIGCSE举办了一个非常知名和非常成功的年度技术研讨会；但该组织并没有明显的地区影响力。另一方面，CCSC十多年来一直举办非常成功的区域会议；但不召开全国会议。因此，这两个组织是相互补充的。在一个旅行预算减少或不存在的时代，特别是对全国本科院校的教师来说，这个项目旨在让这些教师参与到许多最新和相关的国家计算机科学教育问题和概念中。这个为期两年的项目是每年在六个区域CCSC会议上提供SIGCSE技术研讨会讲习班。这将使更多的教师能够利用国家专题讨论会的高质量讲习班，但在离家更近、成本更低的区域会议的背景下。项目的有效性将通过参与者的两次单独评估来确定：一次是在讲习班结束后立即进行的，另一次是在六个月后进行的，以确定对计算机科学教育的课程、课程设置和专业发展的影响。值得注意的是，由于早期联邦赞助的外展活动取得了成功，SIGCSE董事会决定投票将其年度预算盈余的25%用于资助这些向地区的出口/外展活动（尽管不限于CCSC会议）。因此，作为当前应用程序的一部分，我们需要报告一种“匹配”资金。

This project is a cooperative effort between the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) and the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC) to provide outreach services to Computer Science faculty in various regions of the United States. These two cooperating organizations share a primary priorities of improving faculty teaching skills, increasing awareness and knowledge of current issues in computer science education, and providing opportunities for faculty to share ideas. SIGCSE conducts a very well-known and highly successful annual technical symposium; but the organization has no appreciable regional presence. CCSC, on the other hand, has been providing very successful regional conferences for over a decade; but conducts no national conference. The two organizations are, therefore, quite complementary. In an era of reduced or nonexistent travel budgets, especially for faculty in undergraduate institutions throughout the country, this project seeks to involve these faculty in many of the most current and relevant national CS education issues and concepts. The two-year project is to offer SIGCSE Technical Symposium workshops at each of the six regional CCSC conferences each year. This will allow more faculty to take advantage of the high-quality workshops from the national Symposium, but within the context of a less expensive regional conference, closer to home. The effectiveness of the project will be ascertained by two separate evaluations from participants: one immediately following the workshops, and one six months later in order to determine impact on courses, curricula, and professional development in CS education. It is noteworthy that due to the success of earlier federally sponsored outreach activities, the SIGCSE Board has decided voted to allocate up to 25% of its annual budget surplus to fund these export/outreach activities to regions (though not limited specifically to CCSC conferences). Thus we have a sort of "matching" funds to repo rt as part of the present application.