BPC-DP: A Planning Grant for Establishing UTeach-CS

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校提出了一项计划拨款，将其计算机科学系和UTeach项目结合起来，目标是创建UTeach- cs。UTeach始于德克萨斯大学，作为培养中学科学、数学和计算机科学教师的一种新方式。这是自然科学学院和教育学院之间的独特合作，支持想要教书的本科生，想要回去获得认证的大学毕业生，寻找支持社区的新教师，以及想要获得高级学位的经验丰富的教师。事实证明，这种方法非常有效，现在美国各地的大学都在复制这种方法。然而，很少有计算机科学专业的学生参加。这笔计划拨款将用于在德州大学奥斯汀分校建立UTeach-CS项目的初步工作，并帮助在其他大学复制该项目。特别是，结果包括(1)了解如何更好地向CS学生和IT专业人员推销UTeach和教学专业；(2)开发UTCS学士学位？(3)了解将我们的UTeach-CS项目复制到德克萨斯州复制点的前景和挑战，(4)探索CS课程，培训非CS专业的数学和理科学生，以及培训未获得CS教学认证的高中教师，以及(5)在第一年之后发展UTeach-CS的计划，并将其复制到UTeach研究所支持的其他机构。这一努力与CISE CS/10K的目标一致，该目标是到2015年大幅增加美国高中计算机科学教师的数量。

The University of Texas, Austin proposes a planning grant to bring its Computer Science Department and UTeach program together with the goal of creating UTeach-CS. UTeach started at The University of Texas as a new way to prepare secondary science, math and computer science teachers. It is a unique collaboration between the Colleges of Natural Sciences and Education, supporting undergraduates who want to teach, college graduates who want to return for certification, new teachers looking for a supportive community, and experienced teachers who want an advanced degree. It has proven to be so effective that it is now being replicated at universities across the United States. Yet few Computer Science students participate. This planning grant will do preliminary work to establish a UTeach-CS program at the UT-Austin and to help replicate it at other universities. In particular, the outcomes include (1) an understanding of how to better market UTeach and the teaching profession to CS students and IT professionals, (2) the development of a UTCS Bachelor?s degree plan that better accommodates the UTeach certificate, (3) an understanding of the prospects and challenges of replicating our UTeach-CS program to replication sites within Texas, (4) the exploration of CS curricula for training math and science students who are not CS majors and for training high school teachers who are not certified to teach CS, and (5) a plan for growing UTeach-CS beyond this first year and for replicating it to other institutions supported by the UTeach Institute. This effort is in alignment with the CISE CS/10K goal of dramatically increasing the number of US high school computer science teachers by the year 2015.