C4C@Mobile CSP Immersion Week

圣斯考拉斯蒂卡学院申请资金，以扩大2017年夏季教师专业发展项目——移动CSP浸入式周——包括一个为期2.5天的学校辅导员研讨会。学校辅导员可以对代表性不足的学生的参与产生很大的影响，让他们参加计算机科学课程，让他们接触计算机职业，并指导他们在这门课程中学习，并在他们的中学后生活中为工作做准备。该研讨会将利用国家妇女信息技术中心（NCWIT）开发的计算机顾问（C4C）项目。在过去，移动CSP为完成移动CSP专业发展课程的教师提供了C4C工具包和网络研讨会，目的是让教师与学校的辅导员作为盟友，共同努力扩大对计算机的参与。在这个研讨会上，辅导员将与他们的移动CSP老师同事一起学习不同的专业知识。人们期望，当一群专业人士共同努力时，学校将更有效地扩大计算机科学课程的参与度。研讨会将鼓励辅导员完成至少5项后续活动，并在2017-2018学年期间在中西部五州地区开展活动。对会议参与者（移动CSP教师和C4C辅导员）的评估将用于确定培训的有效性，以及在适用的情况下，共同参加专业发展对当地学校招聘活动的影响。

The College of St. Scholastica requests funding to expand a summer 2017 professional development program for teachers--Mobile CSP Immersion Week--to include a 2.5-day workshop for school counselors. School counselors can have a large influence on the participation of underrepresented students, enrolling them in computer science courses, exposing them to computing careers, and guiding them in this course of study and job preparation in their post-secondary lives. The workshop will leverage the Counselors for Computing (C4C) program developed at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). In the past, Mobile CSP has provided C4C kits and webinars to teachers completing the Mobile CSP professional development course, with the goal of having the teachers engage their school's counselors as allies in the effort to broaden participation in computing. With this workshop, counselors will join their Mobile CSP teacher colleagues for distinct, and also shared, professional learning. The expectation is that schools will be more effective in broadening participation in their CS classes when a team of professionals are working together as a common effort. The workshop will encourage counselors to complete at least 5 follow-up activities, and to carry out events within the 2017-2018 academic year in the five-state Midwest region. Evaluation of the conference attendees (both Mobile CSP teachers and C4C counselors) will be used to determine effectiveness of the training as well as, when applicable, what effect attending professional development together has on recruitment activities at local schools.