Finding a Home for Computing Education in Schools of Education

STEM +Computing Partnership（STEM+C）计划旨在通过一个或多个领域的应用研究和开发，推动STEM教学和学习中的多学科整合计算;在K-12中推进计算机科学;并扩大计算领域的参与。在教育学、职前和在职教师专业发展等关键领域进行了投资。随着主流K-12学校计算教育的扩展以及对教师的需求超过了准备教授计算机科学的教师数量，教师准备计划必须参与产生可扩展的，可持续的计算机科学教师管道;因此，需要在教育学校进行计算教育，包括职前教师发展，教师招聘和研究。该项目提出了两个研讨会会议，旨在强调计算教育的重要性，职前教师准备，提供计算机科学教师准备模型，并讨论在推进计算教育以及数学和科学教育的教育计划所面临的挑战。鉴于整合计算如何在其他STEM学科中，计算机科学和计算思维在其他STEM学科中的整合将在研讨会的背景下进行探索。拟议的研讨会将汇集来自教育学院，教师教育工作者，教育研究人员，和国家管理人员讨论教育学校和K-12学校在创建计算机科学教育者计划时所面临的问题。结果将包括一系列教育学校在考虑准备计算机科学教师时需要面对的问题。会议还将提出一个研究议程，供以后审查这些问题。会议组织者参与了数百名计算机科学教师的教育，并将领导讨论和记录重要成果，为K-12学校创建有关计算教育的知识体系。

The STEM +Computing Partnership (STEM+C) program seeks to advance multidisciplinary integration of computing in STEM teaching and learning through applied research and development across one or more domains; advancement of computer science in K-12; and broadening participation in computing fields. Investments are made in critical areas of pedagogy, pre-service and in-service teacher professional development. With the expansion of computing education in mainstream K-12 schools and the demand for teachers surpassing the number of teachers prepared to teach computer science, teacher preparation programs must be engaged to produce a scalable, sustainable pipeline of computer science teachers; thus, there's a need for computing education in the schools of education, including pre-service teacher development, faculty hiring, and research. This project proposes two workshop meetings designed to emphasize the importance of computing education in pre-service teacher preparation, provide models of computer science teacher preparation, and discuss challenges faced by education programs in advancing computing education alongside mathematics and science education. Given how integral computing is within the other STEM disciplines, the integration of computer science and computational thinking within the other STEM disciplines will be explored within the context of the workshop.The proposed workshops will bring together leaders from schools of education, teacher educators, educational researchers, and state administrators to discuss issues faced by schools of education and K-12 schools in the creation of computer science educator programs. Outcomes will include a list of issues that schools of education will need to face as they consider preparing computer science teachers. The conference will also produce a research agenda for subsequent examination of these issues. The conference organizers have been involved in the education of hundreds of computer science teachers and will lead discussions and record important outcomes to create a body of knowledge about computing education for K-12 schools.