Planning: CE21 Maryland - Building Community and Knowledge to Increase Statewide Support for Computing Education

马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校将收集有关马里兰州高中计算机科学教育现状的数据，并在高中教师、社区学院和大学教职员工以及州教育管理人员之间建立关系，以促进和增加州一级对计算机教育持续改进的支持。尽管马里兰州的K-12教育体系总体上取得了成功，但在该州24所学校体系和大约200所高中中，学习计算机科学的机会差别很大。这种差异可以归因于几个因素，包括缺乏国家强制要求的计算机科学高中毕业要求，没有国家要求的该学科教师资格证书，缺乏标准化的计算机科学课程，以及对女孩和代表性不足的少数民族的进入障碍。在这个CE21规划项目中，UMBC的跨学科团队将专注于两个主要目标：(1)对马里兰州24个学校系统中的每个学校的高中计算机科学现状进行评估；(2)通过全州范围的教师、管理人员和高等教育教师峰会，增加马里兰州高中和州管理人员对与计算机科学教育相关的国家问题的了解。这项工作的长期目标是开发课程和教师发展计划，以提高马里兰州计算机科学教育的质量、广度和学生多样性。

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County will gather data about the status of Computer Science education in Maryland high schools and build relationships among high school teachers, community college and university faculty, and state education administrators to facilitate and increase state-level support for lasting improvements to computing education. Despite the overall success of the K-12 education system in Maryland, opportunities to study computer science vary tremendously among the 24 school systems and approximately 200 high schools in the state. This disparity can be attributed to several factors, including the lack of a state-mandated computer science high school graduation requirement, the fact that there is no state-required teacher certification in the discipline, the absence of a standardized computer science curriculum, and barriers to entry for girls and underrepresented minorities.In this CE21 Planning project, the interdisciplinary team at UMBC will focus on two main goals: (1) performing an assessment of the current state of high school computer science in each of the 24 Maryland school systems and (2) increasing knowledge about national issues associated with computer science education among high school and state administrators in Maryland, through state-wide summit meetings for teachers, administrators, and higher education faculty. The longer term objective of this work is to develop curriculum and teacher development programs that will improve the quality, breadth, and student diversity of computer science education in Maryland.