Building a Pathway for CS Principles Teachers: A Two-course Sequence for Secondary Education Mathematics Pre-service Teachers

为计算机科学原理教师打造一条道路：中等教育数学职前教师的两门课程序列

• 批准号: 1738849
• 负责人: Jeffrey Gray
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-10-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738849&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Pathway; CS; Principles; Teachers

The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa proposes to develop a new model for preparing preservice teachers to realize the CSforAll goal of scaling computer science (CS) education to tens of thousands of schools. The project will expand an existing research-practitioner partnership (RPP) to support preservice Secondary Mathematics (SEMA) students with coursework that will prepare them to offer AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) at their future school. Many current Professional Development (PD) efforts for CS education focus on existing in-service teachers, but the future growth will also need to consider the preparation of preservice Education majors who will develop content and pedagogical CS knowledge through exposure to CSP topics. The proposed work advances a course sequence and associated activities that form a pathway for preservice educators who do not have deep pre-existing CS content knowledge. The sequence includes an existing CSP course currently taken by all SEMA students, and a new, second course for those students with an interest in teaching CSP in addition to mathematics. This second course will introduce students to topics related to equity in CS education, overview various K-12 CS standards (including the newly developed Alabama K-12 CS standards), explore connections to mathematics with computational thinking practices and CS content knowledge, consider various nuances of Advanced Placement (AP) CSP curricula endorsed by the College Board, and establish a deeper understanding of the AP CSP Big Ideas and Learning Objectives. Students will also participate in a teaching practicum and serve as student teachers at the local high schools of RPP members. They will also have the opportunity to attend a College Board CSP AP Summer Institute and a conference focused on CS education. The courses will be externally evaluated. In addition, the researchers and practitioners within the RPP will develop and explore a set of research questions related to the interest and self-efficacy of SEMA students as they prepare to become CSP teachers. These new teachers will be the catalyst for broadening the participation of computing at high schools that heretofore have not established a CS course.

阿拉巴马大学塔斯卡卢萨（Tuscaloosa）提议开发一种新的模型，以准备在职前教师实现CSFORALL的目标，即将计算机科学（CS）教育扩展到成千上万的学校。 该项目将扩大现有的研究 - 实证人合作伙伴关系（RPP），以支持前二级数学（SEMA）学生进行课程工作，这将使他们准备在未来的学校提供​​AP计算机科学原理（CSP）。许多目前对CS教育的专业发展（PD）的努力集中在现有的在职教师上，但是未来的增长还需要考虑准备前教育专业的专业，他们将通过暴露于CSP主题来发展内容和教学CS知识。拟议中的工作推进了一项课程序列和相关活动，这是对没有深层既有CS内容知识的前卫教育者的途径。该序列包括当前所有SEMA学生参加的现有CSP课程，以及对于那些对数学教学兴趣的学生，为那些对CSP兴趣的新课程。第二门课程将向学生介绍与CS教育中的公平性有关的主题，概述各种K-12 CS标准（包括新开发的阿拉巴马州K-12 CS标准），探索具有计算思维实践和CS内容知识与数学的联系，并考虑各种各样大学董事会认可的高级安置（AP）CSP课程的细微差别，并对AP CSP的大思想和学习目标建立更深入的了解。学生还将参加教学实践，并在RPP成员的当地高中担任学生老师。他们还将有机会参加大学董事会CSP AP夏季学院和专注于CS教育的会议。这些课程将进行外部评估。此外，RPP中的研究人员和从业人员将在准备成为CSP教师时，将开发和探索与SEMA学生的兴趣和自我效能相关的一系列研究问题。这些新老师将是扩大迄今尚未建立CS课程的高中计算参与的催化剂。

项目成果

A Pre-service Pathway for Preparing Future AP CS Principles Teachers

为未来 AP CS 原理教师做好准备的职前途径

• DOI: 10.1145/3328778.3366945
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGSCE
• 作者: Gray, Jeff;Odom-Bartel, Rebecca;Zelkowski, Jeremy;Hamner, Karl;Rodgers-Farris, Sierra
• 通讯作者: Rodgers-Farris, Sierra

Preparing Pre-Service Teacher Candidates for the Praxis Exam: An Innovative Model of Blended Support

为职前教师候选人准备实践考试：混合支持的创新模式

• DOI: 10.1145/3328778.3372654
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGSCE
• 作者: Odom-Bartel, Rebecca;Fletcher, Carol;Owen, John;Gray, Jeff;Zelkowski, Jeremy
• 通讯作者: Zelkowski, Jeremy