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分校提议开发一种新模式，为职前教师做好准备，以实现将计算机科学 (CS) 教育扩展到数万所学校的 CSforAll 目标。 该项目将扩大现有的研究与实践者合作伙伴关系 (RPP)，为职前中学数学 (SEMA) 学生提供课程作业支持，帮助他们为在未来的学校提供​​ AP 计算机科学原理 (CSP) 课程做好准备。当前许多计算机科学教育的专业发展（PD）工作都集中在现有的在职教师上，但未来的增长还需要考虑职前教育专业学生的准备，他们将通过接触 CSP 主题来发展计算机科学内容和教学知识。拟议的工作推进了课程顺序和相关活动，为不具备深厚的计算机科学内容知识的职前教育工作者提供了一条途径。该序列包括目前所有 SEMA 学生都修读的现有 CSP 课程，以及为那些除了数学之外还对 CSP 教学感兴趣的学生开设的第二门新课程。第二门课程将向学生介绍与 CS 教育公平相关的主题，概述各种 K-12 CS 标准（包括新制定的阿拉巴马州 K-12 CS 标准），探索数学与计算思维实践和 CS 内容知识的联系，考虑各种大学理事会认可的大学先修课程 (AP) CSP 课程的细微差别，并加深对 AP CSP 大理念和学习目标的理解。学生还将参加教学实习，并在 RPP 成员的当地高中担任实习教师。他们还将有机会参加大学理事会 CSP AP 夏季学院和专注于 CS 教育的会议。这些课程将接受外部评估。此外，RPP 内的研究人员和从业人员将开发和探索一系列与 SEMA 学生准备成为 CSP 教师时的兴趣和自我效能相关的研究问题。这些新教师将成为扩大高中计算机参与范围的催化剂，而高中迄今为止尚未开设计算机课程。

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: 2020-02
• 期刊: ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGSCE
• 作者: Gray, Jeff;Odom;Zelkowski, Jeremy;Hamner, Karl;Rodgers
• 通讯作者: Rodgers

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: 2020-02
• 期刊: ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGSCE
• 作者: Odom;Fletcher, Carol;Owen, John;Gray, Jeff;Zelkowski, Jeremy
• 通讯作者: Zelkowski, Jeremy