Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Computing Education Research
Abstract
In 2018 and 2019, Infusing Computing offered face-to-face summer PD workshops to support middle and high school teachers in integrating computational thinking into their classrooms through week-long summer PD workshops and academic-year support. Due to COVID-19, 151 teachers attended the Summer 2020 PD workshops in a week-long virtual conference format. In this paper, we describe Virtual Pivot: Infusing Computing, which employed emerging technology tools, pre-PD training, synchronous and asynchronous sessions, Snap! pair programming, live support, and live networking. Drawing on findings from participant interviews and post-PD surveys, we argue that three categories of changes (digital tools, formats, and supports for teacher engagement and collaboration) were effective in increasing participants’ selfefficacy in teaching CT, supporting collaboration, and enabling participants to design CT-infused content-area lessons. We conclude by discussing how elements of this virtual PD can be replicated to increase teacher and student access to CT practices in middle and high school classrooms.
Publication Date
3-13-2021
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Jocius, Robin; Joshi, Deepti; Albert, Jennifer; Barnes, Tiffany; Robinson, Richard; Catete, Veronica; Dong, Yihuan; Blanton, Melanie; Byrne, Ian O.; and Andrews, Ashley, "The Virtual Pivot: Transitioning Computational Thinking PD for Middle and High School Content Area Teachers" (2021). Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications. 38.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_acmoapubs/38