Strategic Problem-based Approach to Rouse Computer Science (SPARCS)

SPARCS项目将支持72名7-9年级的教师将计算机科学融入他们的科学和数学教学。由于世界正在迅速采用计算工具，学生需要了解如何利用计算技术来做出明智的决定。 该项目将帮助教师通过这些工具将计算思维和计算机科学原理整合到他们的教学中，让学生参与分析数据的项目。 如何支持中学教师将计算机科学和真实的世界相关应用整合到他们的STEM教学中的问题是最前沿的。该项目将告知这个问题。 教师将参加暑期学院，计算机科学在线课程，学年期间的月度会议，以及与行业专业人士的导师。在暑期学院，教师将在小团队工作，以创建基于问题的学习（PBL）框架内的活动，他们将在学年期间在他们的教室实施。这些活动将通过现有的课程资源，公开的电子数据以及行业专家和项目工作人员的建议进行宣传。 这些教师的努力将通过几种形式的数据，包括精心制作的教师档案，观察，访谈和学生的成绩结果记录。这些数据将支持从一年级到三年级的项目的改进，并将被设计为向其他教育工作者传达如何在其他学校实施类似的努力。

The SPARCS project will support 72 teachers of grades 7-9 to integrate computer science into their science and math instruction. Because the world is adopting computational tools quickly, students need to learn about how computational technology can be leveraged to make informed decisions. This project will help teachers integrate computational thinking and computer science principles into their teaching through these tools, by engaging students in projects that analyze data. The question of how to support secondary teachers to integrate computer science and real world related applications into their STEM instruction is on the cutting edge. This project will inform this issue. Teachers will participate in a summer institute, online courses in computer science, monthly meetings during the school year, and mentorship with industry professionals. During the summer institute, teachers will work in small teams to create activities within a problem-based learning (PBL) framework, which they will implement in their classrooms during the school year. These activities will be informed by existing curricular resources, publicly available electronic data, and advice from industry experts and project staff. The efforts of these teachers will be documented through several forms of data, including elaborate teacher portfolios, observations, interviews, and student achievement results. These data will support refinement of the project from year 1 to year 3, and will be designed to communicate to other educators how to implement similar efforts in other schools.