CS10K: C-START: Colorado - STrategic Approach to Rally Teachers

CS10K：C-START：科罗拉多州 - 召集教师的战略方法

• 批准号: 1543231
• 负责人: Tracy Camp
• 金额: $ 99.85万
• 依托单位: Colorado School of Mines
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-15 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1543231&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CS10K; START; Colorado; STrategic; Approach

The Colorado School of Mines (CSM), in partnership with the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), proposes a project to improve the skills of existing computer science (CS) teachers, share best practices in CS pedagogy, and positively change the diversity of students in existing and new CS courses in Colorado. The project -- called C-START (Colorado: STrategic Approach to Rally Teachers) -- will create high-quality professional development (PD) opportunities, empower, and support more than 50 high school teachers, enabling them to teach a progression of CS courses, from the introductory level through Advanced Placement® (AP) CS. These opportunities will leverage recent efforts for K-12 CS PD and best practices in broadening participation in computing developed by the BPC-A Alliances and other NSF Broadening Participation in Computing projects. More specifically, C-START will: -- Create two academic certificates for CS teachers at the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at UNC,-- Incorporate computational thinking skills into the educational technologies requirement at UNC, -- Re-energize the only CSTA Chapter in Colorado, -- Introduce an undergraduate Service Learning course at CSM that will engage students in K-12 CS education, and -- Develop a tiered mentoring program for high school teachers who teach CS.The effectiveness of C-START's approach will be measured by teacher outcomes: Does engaging in C-START have a positive impact on high school teachers' CS content knowledge, confidence that they can teach CS, attitudes toward CS, and knowledge in engaging underrepresented students in CS? Lastly, C-START will be sustainable, in order to ensure the PD opportunities and planned support for teachers will continue after the grant period ends.

科罗拉多矿业学院 (CSM) 与北科罗拉多大学 (UNC) 合作，提出了一个项目，旨在提高现有计算机科学 (CS) 教师的技能，分享 CS 教学的最佳实践，并积极改变计算机科学 (CS) 教学的多样性。该项目名为 C-START（科罗拉多州：召集教师的战略方法），将为科罗拉多州现有和新的 CS 课程的学生创造高质量的专业发展 (PD) 机会，为 50 多所高中提供支持。教师，使他们能够教授一系列计算机科学课程，从入门级到大学先修课程® (AP) CS。这些机会将利用 K-12 CS PD 的最新成果以及 BPC-A 联盟和其他联盟开发的扩大计算机参与的最佳实践。 NSF 扩大对计算项目的参与 更具体地说，C-START 将： -- 为 UNC 教育和行为科学学院的计算机科学教师创建两个学术证书， -- 将计算思维技能纳入 UNC 的教育技术要求中。北卡罗来纳大学， -- 重振科罗拉多州唯一的 CSTA 分会， -- 在 CSM 引入本科服务学习课程，让学生参与 K-12 CS 教育，以及 -- 为教授 CS 的高中教师制定分层辅导计划C-START 方法的有效性将通过教师成果来衡量：参与 C-START 是否对高中教师的 CS 内容知识、对教授 CS 的信心、对 CS 的态度以及参与代表性不足的知识产生积极影响学生在CS？最后，C-START 将是可持续的，以确保在资助期结束后继续为教师提供 PD 机会和计划支持。