Tennessee Tech - Ambareen, Martha Seth - from high school in Florida Bob - from Poconos high school Rebecca Dovi - high school teacher in Richmond - president of csta central VA Rachna - assistant to Joanne Lecia Barker - recruiting Joanne Cohoon Luther - research with Jim Cohoon Teresa - high school Virginia Mel Jurist - UD Jim Cohoon
Ways to entice kids: one logic problem per day or week in teams in class.
tag workshops:
Need to get financing for later workshops:
It is not the goal to teach a new programming language or technical skills.
Speakers - speak to an audience that is interested but may not have undergrad degree in computer science
keynote speaker - what main message to give out? the future of computing and why important to society the speakers do it for free.
set of talking points for the speaker.
could be state it person. not a pr for the university.
ice breaker - use something from Bob. get them engaged. feel comfortable sharing thoughts with each other.
special topic in cs - faculty with good ability to communicate with the teachers. what might you do with the info in terms of assignments or examples in class.
cs unplugged - toward end of day. get up and do one of these as example.
evaluation - applying the ideas from workshop. being successful - enrollments up.
advice: * make as interactive as possible * include a dinner together that highlights something special about location – need to fund. * promote csta - create a chapter. join one.
packet for teachers: * ncwit resources for k-12 - free
resources in print available:
pre-screen videos from csta especially organization is not focused on diversity so may not be sensitive to issues
make connections that it is for them too
hs teachers: not much on how to teach cs well at hs. most prof develop on learning content.
advertise nationally, but select with emphasize regionally.
taft - one set of workshops.
cs ap course - asking business people to teach.
lack of understanding of cs
no endorsement of cs in state certification
Lecia Barker - social scientist, ncwit.
July 25-27 workshop dates.
What does a cs major do? what is their life like?
why girls don't get interested in cs? Cultural belief: disconnect between feminine and technical stereotype threat: hinder performance need interest + expected positive outcome –> achievement activity choices
girls study cs when:
influencers of girls: family, friends, teachers, counselors
Forming messages that appeal to girls:
Examples:
social relevance is important
test messages and images
* recruit friendship groups - athletes * don't depend on self selection * need good math scores to problem solve. be able to reason. * personally extend invitations * ask other teachers * send out letter to students who did well in first third of a course like 106.
Mythbusting - geeks, cubicles, and guys. * maybe do not want to plant the idea by acknowledging it * do you tell them or not about underrepresented in cs? liken cs to other fields where were underrepresented by now have significant percentages - doctors, lawyers,vets,… * bring a friend
track your outcomes
cs 1: * haiku - structured communication. * we are going to do structured communication in this class.
Example: jelly bean in a jar computation
multiple entry points: * cs 106 with prior experience * cs 106 with no prior experience could not get prior experience people to go to their section.
3 75 minutes with labs integrated with classtime.
art exhibition using the graphics library winner gets tshirt with their design
why cs in high school?
cs106 honors - can it be separated by experience?
106 - first day - show joanne's slides on why do cs
106 - each student create a card of what they use cs for in their life
flow chart to talk with hs guidance counselors
posters on these stats - dotdiva.org cs work in every industry
Bob - Japanese reindeer
move only 3 pieces that makes it face the other way. not only one solution.
logic groups/problems - give them skills to succeed.
enjoying the experience in the class - not just programming. groups of 3 working on a logic problem.
106/other cs classes - use logic problem as ice breaker on first day. break up groups by moving around.
106 - haiku poem.
recruiting - invite classes to come into your classes for 5 minutes and show final projects. go to other classes for 5 minutes and show off/recruit.
talk to guidance counselors.
106 - show off final projects from past semesters.
have girls in cs speak at the workshop - what enticed them into the field
Seth - Lake Brantley high school
Seth - I will take care of your kid. mastery learning. Projects. help others in the course. We are going to “Change the world together.” Makes you special. facebook fan page.
take 9th graders.
to keep them - first 2 weeks when can add and drop. other teachers are mean. start with fun stuff.
not read the syllabus or start with hello world.
looking for good students, not students who are going to major in cs
Advertising:
web page - get your own name and forward to ud?
Chris Stephenson - will blast to mailing list
AP cs listserv - AP central
send invites directly to local teachers - go to admissions - target message.
instructional technology and math education at ud might have links
IB cs teachers
applications:survey monkey, zoomerang, inhouse with web form
when ask info that is crucial - contact info. fill in twice and verify it is correct. ask for phone and email.
when send an app, site sends email to them and copy us
acknowledge the input so they see what they typed
someone reliable get messages.
criteria for selection:
name of workshop — uva's is called tapestry - a tag workshop.
Tapestry@UD
preference for teachers that had a peer to talk to
irb review - borrow uva proposal for this
have you attended any previous Tapestry or tag workshop?
are you applying to another Tag workshop concurrently?
Tennessee workshop - July 5,6,7
You much respond - always require acknowledgements.
every year about 1 person has not shown up.
Organizers link on tag workshop.
sample letters are there.
announcement to csta etc - should it be together as one letter or separate announcements
uva - june 29?
we're from the government and we're here to help.
37K from uva. 30 people. = 30k no overhead associated with that money. $7k to costs of hosting - to . all money billed to uva. sign up as a vendor to get reimbursed. ud sign up as a vendor to bill uva. no alcohol on the bill.
department - ask for matching money. jim will write that letter. all related to diversity.
can you help. tshirts to participants, need to cover the overhead next year.
housing, food, tshirts
options: google, microsoft, local companies. - sevone, hostmysite, jpmorgan, others, invite local businesses to come and see what we are doing.
participants - 1000 travel - honorarium covers their travel costs facility - get for free, reserve room housing - meals for 3 days - give cards for the cafeteria - 2 breakfasts and 2 dinners - $15 a day parking passes lunch meal - together speakers - 2 external people - keynote, Lynn Lambert - gave them the honorarium, did not offer them housing Seth and Bob - speakers - honorarium
Joanne and Jim for free housing - dorm. 2 nights. drove the first morning. start at 11am or noon first day so can drive that day. end third day at 2pm
7k has to be for participants. if cannot do housing in dorm, lower honorarium.
parking total $450.
catering $200 catering. $500 flat fee for conference services.
$100 for 2 nights in dorms. shared bathroom.
air-conditioned.
no one shared a room.
make the people comfortable. when there will be food. let them know how we are taking care of you. dietary concerns.
acceptance letters: ask if parking and dietary requirements.
dress code - summer business casual. let them know what to expect. what will be available in the dorm rooms.
meals at uva: 2 breakfasts and 2-3 dinners $35.
breaks - beverages, breaks, lunch catered. first 2 days catered lunch. 3rd day - box lunch. vegetarian food.
external speakers - stipend like participant. minimize people with cost.
Luther Tychonievich - scripts
Rachna - evaluation results
expectation - multiple workshops. but no more funding after first year
google cs4hs is not worrying about diversity so they would give support for outyears
google 20k – cs4hs support.
Evaluation:
are you being successful?
evidence to potential funders
what can be improved?
this time - Cathy Brawner external evaluator
3 points of data collection: * application data * exit survey * follow-up survey online in spring
maybe hold back some of the honorarium money until after follow-up survey
professor talk - break teachers into groups and they talk about best practices on teaching nuggets for different topics
session without a speaker - just a moderator - teaching nugget conversations, show-n-tell
30-4- minute session - in a group, 1 specific thing that each person can do in their school.
sigcse nifty assignments
photocopy data from surveys at workshop and applicant data.
external evaluator needs participant emails to do online survey
survey takes 20 minutes at workshop
Other data to gather for external evaluator:
Each day was full. should not go by 5pm.
Accept some. don't reject others until sure how many coming. Encourage to reapply if don't have room. Individual message to them personally. send explicit invites to them next year.