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Pilot AP Computer Science Principles Course. by Art Lopez Sweetwater High School. Introduction. CSP is a proposed AP course under development that seeks to broaden participation in computing and computer science for high school and college students.
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Pilot APComputer Science Principles Course by Art Lopez Sweetwater High School
Introduction • CSP is a proposed AP course under development that seeks to broaden participation in computing and computer science for high school and college students. • The CSP course curriculum within San Diego County developed and led by Dr. Beth Simon of UCSD, and Dr. Diane Baxter for ComPASS CE21.
Background and Rationale for CSP Course • Students require increasing skills in computing across all STEM fields. • Number of students (especially women and minorities) studying computing and computer science at both the high school and college levels has been declining alarmingly. • Number of college freshmen intending to major in computer science plummeted more than 70 percent this decade.
Goals of CSP Course • Introduce and provide educational opportunities for Computer Science curriculum at the high school level. • CSP course is intended to foster a wider appeal for the computer science discipline and to better prepare a pipeline of STEM majors. • NSF funding project and targeting to increase number of women and minorities that would take this course.
ComPASS CE21 • ComPASS CE21 is recruiting and training teachers to teach CSP course in San Diego County. • ComPASS CE21 promoting and recruiting high schools and school districts to adopt course. • Curriculum designed by Dr. Beth Simon and is aligned with curriculum framework for the Pilot AP CSP course.
Pilot AP CS Principles Course • Information about CS Principles Course found at: http://www.csprinciples.org/ • Curriculum Framework • Learning Objectives • Performance Tasks: three components.
ComPASS CE21 Curriculum • Teach an engaging new computer science principles curriculum (aligned with Pilot AP CSP) based around the Alice 3D program. • Alice On-Line Book: Expeditions Through Alice. • Alice On-Line Book Teacher’s Guide.
CS10K Community • Goal: Computer science should be part of everyone's education, and everyone should have a path to a career in computing. • Goal:recruit and have 10,000 well-trained computer science teachers in 10,000 high school across the United States. • Pilot AP CSP course using this Web site for resources and discussion forums.
Phase II:Pilot AP CSP Courses in San Diego • Art Lopez at Sweetwater High School. • Juanita Quevedo at Otay Ranch High School. • Jill Westerlund at Hoover High School. • Rebecca Dovi at Patrick Henry High School.
URLs for Pilot AP CSP Course • College Board: https://sites.google.com/site/csprinciplespilotii/ • ComPASS CE 21: http://www.ce21sandiego.org/ • CS10K Community: http://cs10kcommunity.org/
Contact Information for San Diego CSP Course • Dr. Beth Simon: bsimon@cs.ucsd.edu • Please add QWERTYat beginning of subject line. • Dr. Diane Baxter: Dbaxter@sdsc.edu • Director of Education, San Diego Supercomputer and UCSD. • Ange Mason: amason@sdsc.edu • Education Program Manager , San Diego Supercomputer and UCSD. • Art Lopez: arthur.lopez@sweetwaterschools.org