CS 10K: Developing and Supporting Computer Science Teachers Via Strategic Partnering

特拉华大学提出Partner4CS项目，为初中和高中计算机科学教师设计和评估一套全面的专业发展机会。像许多其他州一样，特拉华州没有计算机科学教师证书，没有CSTA章节，也没有明确的教育路径来培养计算机科学教师。Partner4CS旨在规避这些问题。该项目带来了一个跨学科的团队，包括来自计算机科学、数学教育和教育研究学科的大学教师和本科生，他们拥有强大的工程外联和评估资质。团队将开发(1)一个由6-12年级教师和高中生组成的三轨暑期专业发展学院，进行技能发展、教学方法和社区建设；(2)为教师提供即时获得教学和课程支持的在线学习环境，以及与其他教师和大学教职员工定期沟通的手段；(3)每周开设1学分的大学服务学习课程，本科生在课堂上为教师提供服务，大学课堂上进行规划和反思；(4)每季星期六上午为中六至十二年级师生举办的教师研讨会，以继续整个学年的暑期专业发展。经过精心指导的本科生将协助这些项目，进而从跨学科合作、教学和课程规划中获益，并有机会亲身体验他们的计算机专业知识在帮助他人方面的潜在影响。他们的服务也可能有助于改善在大学和高中的计算机水平的代表性不足的学生的参与。Partner4CS将以计算机科学专业学生与中学教师合作进行服务学习的经验为基础，并以教育专业学生与地区学校建立的教育学生教学经验为基础。它将利用特拉华大学的数学教育专业对计算机科学的要求，以及特拉华大学将于2012年秋季用CS原理取代目前的CS0课程的时机。

The University of Delaware proposes Partner4CS, a project to design and evaluate a comprehensive set of professional development opportunities for middle and high school computer science teachers. Delaware, like many other states, does not have teacher certification in computer science, CSTA chapters, or a defined educational path that would prepare computer science teachers. Partner4CS aims to circumvent these problems. The project brings an interdisciplinary team -- including university faculty and undergraduates from the computer science, math education, and educational research disciplines -- that has strong engineering outreach and evaluation credentials. The team will develop (1) a 3-track summer professional development institute bringing together G6-12 teachers and high school students for skills development, teaching pedagogy, and community building; (2) an online learning environment that provides teachers with instant access to pedagogical and curricular support and means to communicate regularly with other teachers and university faculty; (3) a new college service learning 1-credit course weekly alternating undergraduate service to teachers in the classroom with college classroom sessions for planning and reflection; and (4) quarterly Saturday morning teacher workshops for G6-12 teachers and students to continue the summer professional development throughout the academic year. Carefully mentored undergraduates will assist in these programs, in turn gaining from interdisciplinary collaboration, teaching and lesson planning, and the opportunity to experience first-hand the potential impact of their computing expertise in helping others. Their service may also contribute to an improvement in the participation of underrepresented students in computing at the both the college and at the high school levels. Partner4CS will build on the CS PIs' experience in partnering computer science undergraduates in service learning with middle school teachers and on the Education PIs' established partnerships with regional schools for education student teaching experiences. It will leverage both the university's math education major requirement of taking computer science, and the timing of the University of Delaware replacing its current CS0 course by CS Principles in Fall 2012.