Curriculum for a Comprehensive Statewide In-Service CS Teacher Training Program

Training teachers to teach high-quality computer science courses is an important step towards increasing participation in computer science. To meet this need, our Research Practitioner Partnership (RPP) was formed with the primary goal of creating a comprehensive, graduate-level program to train in-service CS teachers with little to no prior CS coursework. Since its formation, the RPP has iteratively designed, implemented, and evaluated a five-course program to improve participants' knowledge of computer science content and pedagogy while allowing them to earn the state's grades 5-12 computer science endorsement. Our program has successfully scaled from a single-site pilot to a truly statewide, multi-site program, emphasizing educator-based, standards-based, and cohort-based instruction. Currently, the RPP serves 250 in-service participants.