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Centering K-8 CS Teachers’ Experiences During a Day of Dialogue for Teachers and Researchers (RTP)

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 13: Attitudes & Prespectives of Teachers

Tagged Division

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

14

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43308

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https://peer.asee.org/43308

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73

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Adrienne Decker University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-0822-4813

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Adrienne Decker is a faculty member in the newly formed Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo. She has been studying computing education and teaching for over 15 years, and is interested in broadening participation, evaluating t

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Monica McGill CSEdResearch.org Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-3096-9619

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Monica McGill is Founder & CEO of CSEdResearch.org. Her area of scholarship is computer science education research with a current focus on diversity and improving the quality of research to examine effective practices on a large scale. She oversaw the recent development of csedresearch.org, a K-12 CS Education Research Resource Center with manually curated data from over 1,000 article summaries and a list of over 150 instruments for studying computing education.

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Abstract

We recently hosted a workshop that brought together 12 K-8 teachers who teach computer science (CS) and/or computational thinking and 12 CS education researchers. Since there is a known gap between practices that researchers study and practices that teachers implement in a learning environment, the purpose of our full-day workshop was to create a meaningful space for teachers and researchers to meet and explore each others' perspectives. The dialogue was framed around teachers’ classroom experiences with researchers reflecting on how they could improve their research practice. The workshop, held during the 2022 CS Teachers Association (CSTA) conference, included multiple hands-on, engaging activities where teachers and researchers shared their knowledge, a panel for teachers to share their classroom experiences, and a panel for researchers to share evidence-based practices that teachers could use in the classroom. Feedback from participants was overall positive, with teachers increasing their appreciation for research and researchers increasing their knowledge about the importance of framing their findings in actionable ways that teachers can understand and act upon. In this experience report, we share details about the workshop and its activities, impact on participants, lessons learned, and recommendations for presenting similar workshops in the future.

Decker, A., & McGill, M. (2023, June), Centering K-8 CS Teachers’ Experiences During a Day of Dialogue for Teachers and Researchers (RTP) Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43308

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