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The goal of project PD4CS is to establish an evidence-based professional development (PD) program to improve teachers' knowledge to teach computer science, with a special focus on the effective training of teachers having limited computer science background. This is a joint effort between faculty in the College of Education, Department of Computer Science, at Purdue University and Michigan State University and Project Lead The Way.
The project team will (i) develop and implement a high-quality professional development approach that incorporates face-to-face training coupled with continuous online just-in-time support at a large-scale; and (ii) assess the effectiveness of that professional development at improving teachers' knowledge and skills for teaching computer science.
In The News
November 2015: Yizhou Qian and Jim Lehman presented a poster on misconceptions in computer science and efforts of the project to help teachers address students' misconceptions at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) annual conference in Indianapolis, IN.
July 2015: Aman Yadav and Phil Sands attend the CSTA meeting in Texas. Debbie Hagen, Aman Yadav, and Phil Sands continue visiting PLTW Core Training sessions in Dayton, Ohio, Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Terre Haute, Indiana. Over 40 teachers visited and will be participating in the PD4CS project.
June 2015: Tim Korb welcomes high school CSE teachers to the PD4CS project at PLTW Core Training sessions in Kokomo and Urbana-Champaign.
May 2015: The Purdue project team travels to East Lansing to join the Michigan State team in a planning retreat. Advisory Board members and PLTW staff participate via Skype.
March 2015: Bennett Brown, Tim Korb, Phil Sands, and Aman Yadav attended SIGCSE 2015 in Kansas City. Bennett presented at a panel session of groups creating professional development materials for CS Principles teachers.
January 2015: Aman Yadav, Susanne Hambrusch, and Tim Korb, along with PLTW partners Bennett Brown and Jason Taylor, attended the NSF-sponsored CE21 meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
January 2015: Aman Yadav's CSTA Blog highlights the importance of assessment in K-12 computer science education and the CSTA Assessment Landscape Planning Committee he is chairing.
November 2014: Deborah Hagen and Phil Sands presented at the Indiana Business Educators Conference in Indianapolis, IN. Sessions included strategies for teaching introductory CS and recruiting for a diverse CS classroom.
November 2014: Yizhou Qian attended the 2014 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. He attended sessions on the state of computer science education in K-12 classrooms and he participated in discussions on computer science education.
October 2014: Tim Korb attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 1502462. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
