A k-12 college partnership

  • Authors:

  • Stephen Cooper;Wanda Dann;John Harrison

  • Affiliations:

  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach, VA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

To combat the decline of teaching computing courses in high schools, a plan was created to offer professional development (in both content and pedagogy) to high school computing teachers, and to have college faculty partner with those high school teachers to implement innovative curricula. This paper describes a pilot program that was run in support of an NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) project that funded this plan of action. Professional development activities were offered during summer 2006 and the resulting curriculum was taught in high school the following academic year (2006-2007).