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Lessons and Challenges in Supporting CS Teachers through Local Communities: CS Teacher Leaders' Perceptions

Published: 06 March 2023 Publication History

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Effective professional learning communities (PLCs) are important in supporting teacher learning. This study investigated computer science (CS) teacher leaders' perspectives on the lessons and the challenges in supporting CS teachers through local PLCs. We purposefully selected ten CSTA chapters and conducted focus group interviews with the chapter leaders between 2020 and 2022. Our findings indicated that these PLCs offered social-emotional support, continual networking opportunities, and rich professional learning resources. Also, they amplified teachers' voices and supported CS teachers' professional identity building. To engage CS teachers, the teacher leaders built trust, collaborated with other PLCs or organizations, and set an inclusive PLC culture. These PLCs had challenges in recruitment, leadership development and transition and building group identity.

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This video presents our proposed architecture for scaling up to a statewide CS high school teacher preparation program by utilizing community of practice partnerships and state Area Education Agencies (AEAs) through a medium-sized NSF CSForAll:RPP grant. We present lessons learned from our previous pilot program as well as research questions.

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[1]
Code.org, CSTA, & ECEP Alliance. (2021). 2021 State of computer science education: Accelerating action through advocacy. Retrieved from https://advocacy.code.org/stateofcs
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Ni, L., Bausch, G., & Benjamin, R. (2021). Computer science teacher professional development and professional learning communities: a review of the research literature. Computer Science Education, 1--32.
[3]
Goode, J., Peterson, K., Malyn-Smith, J., & Chapman, G. (2020). Online professional development for high school computer science teachers: Features that support an equity-based professional learning community. Computing in Science & Engineering, 22(5), 51--59.

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    SIGCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2
    March 2023
    1481 pages
    ISBN:9781450394338
    DOI:10.1145/3545947
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    1. cs teachers
    2. identity
    3. professional learning communities

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