Advanced Placement Computer Science: Principles - Summer 2011 Professional Development for UC Berkeley Cluster of High School Teachers

加州伯克利大学提议在其拟议的大学理事会AP CS原则课程试点工作的基础上，在2011年夏季与一批高中教师合作并对其进行培训。2010-2011年，PI在大学一级试行了他们的课程-称为“计算的美丽和乐趣”（BJC）;通过这项工作，他们将为高中生调整课程，并为教师提供专业发展。BJC通过让学生参与严格的计算课程来激发激情，美丽和敬畏，该课程使用Snap视觉丰富的编程环境来促进创造力和协作，同时也引发了对当前事件以及计算如何与人们生活相关的思考。今年夏天的努力将进行和评估在职教师的团队为基础的专业发展，它将加强Snap软件的开发（Scratch的扩展，以前称为“构建自己的块（BYOB）”），它结合了技术的复杂性与有吸引力的拖放界面。具体来说，该项目将（1）在伯克利地区发展一个核心导师教师小组，他们将在以后的几年中帮助将BJC周围的专业发展扩展到新的地点，（2）为教师进行和评估密集的夏季专业发展，以及（3）重新实施Snap编程语言和开发环境，以提高其速度，并创建不需要本地软件的版本安装.该项目旨在继续围绕BJC试点课程发展的势头，并为单独向NSF提出的更大项目奠定坚实的基础。

The University of California Berkeley proposes to build on the work of their pilot of the proposed College Board AP CS Principles course, working with and training an initial group of high school teachers during the summer of 2011. The PIs piloted their course -- called the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)-- at the college level in 2010-2011; with this work, they will adapt it for high school students and provide professional development for their teachers. BJC invokes passion, beauty, and awe by engaging students in a rigorous computing curriculum that promotes creativity and collaboration using Snap's visually rich programming environment, while also provoking thought around current events and how computing relates to people's lives. This summer effort will conduct and evaluate team-based professional development for in-service teachers and it will enhance the development of the Snap software (an extension of Scratch formerly known as "Build your own Blocks (BYOB)"), which combines technical sophistication with an attractive drag-and-drop interface. Specifically the project will (1) develop a core group of mentor teachers in the Berkeley area who will in later years help to scale the professional development around BJC to new locations, (2) conduct and evaluate intensive summer professional development for teachers, and (3) reimplement the Snap programming language and development environment to improve its speed and to create a version that does not require local software installation. This project is designed to continue the momentum developed around the pilot BJC course and establish a firm base for a larger project that has been separately proposed to NSF.