Diverse learners, diverse courses, diverse projects: learning from challenges in new directions
Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on computer science education, 2014•dl.acm.org
Several changes and reforms in teaching computer science have been proposed and
championed as part of the CS10K initiative [1-4]. The CS Principles (CSP) project and the
overarching CS10K initiative include a public/private partnership offering curricula, curricular
frameworks, professional development, online support, and a community of practice to
support individual and systemic reforms at scale. In this special session, we hear from those
leading large CSP projects and from the teachers participating in these large projects. The …
championed as part of the CS10K initiative [1-4]. The CS Principles (CSP) project and the
overarching CS10K initiative include a public/private partnership offering curricula, curricular
frameworks, professional development, online support, and a community of practice to
support individual and systemic reforms at scale. In this special session, we hear from those
leading large CSP projects and from the teachers participating in these large projects. The …
Summary
Several changes and reforms in teaching computer science have been proposed and championed as part of the CS10K initiative [1-4]. The CS Principles (CSP) project and the overarching CS10K initiative include a public/private partnership offering curricula, curricular frameworks, professional development, online support, and a community of practice to support individual and systemic reforms at scale. In this special session, we hear from those leading large CSP projects and from the teachers participating in these large projects. The session is designed to inform the education community of these efforts and to situate them in the context of understanding how a diversity of approaches to implementing the CSP framework is necessary to succeed with different and diverse student populations, schools, districts, and teachers. Knowledge of these approaches will help those teaching these students as they move from high school to college, bringing related but diverse experiences because of how each student is learning the material that is based on the same curricular framework. This framework is part of the CS Principles project, but the efforts we report on in this session realize the framework at different scales, in different populations, and with different pedagogical approaches.
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