Stakeholder meeting notes

Meeting 1

• Adrienne: Consider two waves of CS teachers. AP CS Teacher community is first wave; second wave is CS4All, ECS folks interested in CS. How to market this program to first-wave teachers who just need the cert?
  • Chris: Yes, but first wave may be grandfathered in, and CSTA conversation suggests more audience for advanced cert in second wave. Plus, speaking generally, first wave teachers might benefit from some reframing of CS.
• Kylie: In teaching teachers, emphasize teaching students with different levels of experience with technology. For example, many students have no experience pressing “save” on a file because they use web apps.
• Adrienne: In response to Chris bringing up the possibility of committing to a particular curriculum, “Don’t get in bed with a provider.”
• Adrienne: CSE 115 is not the right course. 503 was designed as a grad substitute to 115, not sure what its current context is. Either way, if we want content coverage we will need something more.
  • Chris: content coverage without technical treatment schoolifies CS.
• Kylie: In training TA’s to teach intro CS, teaching debugging strategies is crucial.
  • Chris: This will be a particularly important issue for teachers who are used to being the content-matter experts in the classroom. Supporting debugging, particularly in open-ended projects, means putting yourself in situations where you won’t always have the answer.
• Adrienne: In next meeting, emphasize what K12 teachers would need from this advanced cert.