Education in the Innovation Age: Meeting the K-12 CS Challenge
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Education in the Innovation Age: Meeting the K-12 CS Challenge
- 1. 0 June 2018 - WTCS Summit Education in the Innovation Age: Meeting the K-12 CS Challenge Carol L. Fletcher, Ph.D. Deputy Director Center for STEM Education The University of Texas at Austin carol.fletcher@utexas.edu @drfletcher88 @weteachcs
- 3. 2 Where Are the CS Teachers? Only 23individuals completed a pre-service teacher education program to become certified in Grades 8-12 Computer Science. 23
- 4. 3 No CS Teachers = No CS Students Only 3% of Texas high school students in 2017 completed a CS course.
- 5. 4 WeTeach_CS Model: 5 Key Components • Equity – broadening participation in computing • Pedagogy – improving instructional strategies • Content – growing computing content knowledge • Certification – increasing the # of CS certified educators • Community – building a community committed to CSforAll
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- 7. 6 WeTeach_CS Collaboratives https://www.weteachcs.org/collaboratives/ WeTeach_CS Collaboratives are comprised of 31 projects across the state of Texas, including institutions of higher education, educational service centers (ESCs), local education agencies, and nonprofit entities.
- 8. 7 19 110 50 100 150 200 250 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 Number of Texas Teachers Certified in HS Computer Science In-service certification pathway Pre-service certification pathway School Years NumberofTeachers
- 9. 8 19 22 11 90 50 100 150 200 250 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 Number of Texas Teachers Certified in HS Computer Science In-service certification pathway Pre-service certification pathway School Years NumberofTeachers
- 10. 9 19 22 40 11 9 31 0 50 100 150 200 250 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 Number of Texas Teachers Certified in HS Computer Science In-service certification pathway Pre-service certification pathway School Years NumberofTeachers
- 11. 10 19 22 40 70 11 9 31 23 0 50 100 150 200 250 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 Number of Texas Teachers Certified in HS Computer Science In-service certification pathway Pre-service certification pathway School Years NumberofTeachers
- 12. 11 19 22 40 70 210 11 9 31 23 130 50 100 150 200 250 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 Number of Texas Teachers Certified in HS Computer Science In-service certification pathway Pre-service certification pathway Launched School Years NumberofTeachers
- 13. 12 414 Texas educators have become CS certified since Fall 2015
- 14. 13 Goal #2 Increase the percentage of high schools offering CS courses. 13
- 15. 14 21% 22% 27% 29% 33% 38% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 Percent of Texas High Schools that Offer a CS Course WeTeach_CS Goal #2: Increase the number of HS offering CS courses
- 16. 15 Goal #3 Increase the number of high school students completing CS courses. 15
- 17. 16 WeTeach_CS Goal #3: Increase the number students enrolled in HS CS courses
- 18. 17 Goal #4 Broaden participation in CS courses. 17
- 19. 18 WeTeach_CS Goal #4: Diversity student enrollment in HS CS courses
- 20. 19 WeTeach_CS for HS E-book Curriculum Developed by John Owen Virtual Monthly Support Annual Subscription per Teacher Online PD Coming Soon Special Introductory Rate through July 15 For further details: https://utakeit.stemcenter.utexas.edu/ weteach-cs-for-hs/
- 21. 20 Texas is considered a national leader in K-12 CS Education. • TX was the first state to REQUIRE all HS to offer CS courses. • TX requires high school CS teachers to be certified in CS • TX requires teachers to pass a CS content exam to be CS certified. • TX has state standards for computer science courses. • TX is a leader in the number of Black, Hispanic, and female AP CS enrollees. • TX counts AP Computer Science A as a math credit for graduation. • And…
- 22. 21 Languages Other Than English (LOTE) Credit •As of April 2018, TX allows CS I, II, III, AP CSP, AP CS A, & IB CS to count as a LOTE credit (19 TAC, Subchapter 74.12, b, 5, ii.). •AP Computer Science A or IB Computer Science Higher Level can satisfy BOTH one advanced mathematics requirement AND a LOTE requirement for graduation (19 TAC, Subchapter 74.11, k).
- 23. 22 HB 3593 - Cybersecurity SBOE must create a Cybersecurity course Pathway • UT’s Center for STEM Education is convening Texas CS Task Force to make recommendations to the TEA on the courses that should be included in the new Cybersecurity pathway. • Courses in the pathway should receive weighted funding – may be CTE. • Cybersecurity course pathway recommendations include at least 1 CS course. • Probably won’t be in effect until 2019-2020 school year.
- 24. 23 Carol L. Fletcher, Ph.D. Deputy Director Center for STEM Education The University of Texas at Austin carol.fletcher@utexas.edu @drfletcher88 @weteachcs Thank you! STEMcenter.utexas.edu weteachcs.org
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Editor's Notes
- Thank you Mike. What will TX do to ensure that we lead the nation, rather than follow, in capitalizing on the technological transformations Mike has described to benefit our people, our country, and our world? For most of the 20th century, the TX economy was propelled forward, sometimes in fits and spurts, by resources unique to our geography, and hidden underground. Oil and natural gas literally fueled our economic prosperity. But in the Innovation Age, our greatest natural resource no longer comes from underground. It’s sitting in your classrooms. How will TX leverage it’s greatest natural resource, the young people in your classrooms, to be a leader in fields like AI, VR, & cybersecurity? I’m going to share with you a few steps we’ve taken at UT Austin’s Center for STEM Education, to take on this challenge.
- Nathalie – make this look good and maybe add a picture of a kid doing CS
- NATHALIE – I have programmed these to transition in but you might be able to improve the look overall.
- NATHALIE – The graphic that Christian made is good for print but not for PPT. I’d like to use the basic graphics you have here but have each goal appear upon a mouse click. So I need to break apart the 5 goals into 5 different slides that build up to the full slide as I click through (kind of like the teacher cert graph). Can you do that? I would remove the extra arrows inside the box from goal 5 as well.
- NATHALIE – Can you add a big star in a second slide in the Austin area to show that UT Austin is the backbone for the CS Collaborative network?
- NATHALIE – Can you create a graph just like the Goal #4 graph but only include the line for overall enrollment increasing by 124%?
- NATHALIE – For this graph, I’d like to start with the “All” line and then add a line for each slide so it builds like the teacher cert graph but by sub-population, not by year. So we need 4 graphs.