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TEALS
- Teaching Education And Literacy in Schools
- High School Computer science curriculum
- Pairing Industry Volunteers with educators to get them up to speed with the material in a hands-on approach
- Teacher has the teaching certificate but not the background on the material
- The volunteer brings context and real world applications of principles
- Students enjoy someone other than their teachers in front of them
- The TEALS program can assist finding volunteers for a school that cannot identify the right kind of professionals themselves.
- Curriculum
- Stanford developed -- Microsoft sponsored (paid)
- Intro to comp sci - snap
- Intro to comp sci 2 - python
- AP Comp Sci
- AP Computer Science Principles
- Snap -- Based on MIT scratch
- Block based -- teaches CS concepts
- Loops
- Conditionals
- Variables
- etc.
- Python
- Java
- More options available
- Types of volunteering
- Co-teach
- Teachers have the teaching certificate, but the volunteer leads most of the lessons
- Teacher Assistants - Lab support
- Support the class less frequently 2-3 times a week
- Work hands on with students individually more
- Support the lesson by interjecting
- Being a backup
- Remote instruction
- Goals
- More awareness and introduction of CS into age where there typically is little to none means more people are exposed to it as a career option
- Diversity. Most students (and adults) have incorrect preconceived notions of the field. This is a way to expose CS to groups of people to show how CS can be fun
- TEALS looks to schools for a commitment to action in three categories:
- Diversity in Enrollment
- Inclusive Learning Space
- Inclusive Instruction
- Under staffed / budget schools can participate as equals since this program does not cost them anything and they can have excellent quality volunteers come in
- This is ultimately a vehicle to enable training of teachers to succeed with the curriculum without volunteer help
- Real Numbers
- 10,000 students a year across 455 schools in the US and Canada
- 1,500 Tech volunteers from 650 companies
- 85% of volunteers come from outside of Microsoft
- 35% female students
- 1 in 5 schools are rural
- 94% of students believe the volunteers were effective in helping vs teachers alone
- Students in this program score 8% higher on AP Comp Sci standard test than other programs
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