BPC-LSA: Training High School CS Teachers to Attract More & Diverse Students

弗吉尼亚大学提议利用和扩大挂毯研讨会，挂毯研讨会是一个成功的高中计算机科学教师系列研讨会，包括内容和方法方面的培训，以吸引和留住女性和少数民族学生。参加了这个研讨会后，教师们报告说，他们成功地招收了更多的学生，特别是女孩和少数民族学生。根据这一建议，Tapestry讲习班将扩大规模，在全国范围内影响一个新的讲习班，即教师吸引女孩参加高中CS (TAG HSCS)，该讲习班将培训“培训师”在其所在的地理区域组织新的Tapestry讲习班。具体来说，拟议的努力将招募组织者，与SIGCSE、格蕾丝·霍珀计算机女性庆典和区域霍珀庆典一起举办培训师讲习班；它将在这些组织者之间创建共享资源的社区；它将在全国范围内复制Tapestry工作室；它将开发和分发NCWIT程序，用于提供挂毯式讲习班。组织者社区将部分通过参加NCWIT年度会议和会议来维持。该项目将通过审查和咨询计划、提供经过测试的内容以及为第一次实施的参与者提供资金来确保研讨会的质量。这些培训师和参加他们讲习班的教师一起，有能力对未被充分代表的计算机学生的入门和早期经历产生广泛的影响。

The University of Virginia proposes to leverage and scale the Tapestry Workshops, a successful series of workshops for high school computer science teachers that includes training in both content and in methods for attracting and retaining women and minority students. After participating in this workshop, teachers report success in recruiting more students - particularly girls and minority students - to their classes. With this proposal, the Tapestry workshops will be scaled for national impact with a new workshop, Teachers Attract Girls to high school CS (TAG HSCS) that will train "trainers" to organize new Tapestry-type workshops in their own geographic regions. Specifically, the proposed effort will recruit organizers for train-the-trainer workshops to be held in conjunction with SIGCSE, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and the Regional Hopper Celebrations; it will create community among those organizers for sharing resources; it will replicate the Tapestry workshops around the country; and it will develop and distribute an NCWIT Program-in-a-Box for offering Tapestry-type workshops. The community of organizers will be sustained in part through attendance and sessions at the annual NCWIT meetings. The project will ensure workshop quality by reviewing and consulting on plans, providing tested content, and funding participants for the first implementations. Together these trainers and the teachers who participate in their workshops have the capacity to have a broad impact on the entry and early experiences of underrepresented students in computing.