TY - GEN
T1 - A Computational Thinking and Equity-Centered Urban Preservice Residency Program's Impact on STEM Teachers
AU - Ha, Jesse
AU - Wei, Wei
AU - Gomez, Kimberley
AU - Ghosh, Anuradha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ISLS.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Situated in an urban teacher residency program at the University of California, Los Angeles, that aims to prepare high school teachers for integrating computational thinking (CT) into equity-focused STEM teaching, this paper investigates the impact of the STEM+C3 program on preservice teachers' conceptualizations and integration of CT in classrooms. Our analysis of 10 interviews suggests that the STEM+C3 program had an overall positive impact on teaching residents' (TRs) understandings of equity-centered practices in CT pedagogy with a few teachers demonstrating shallower understandings. Most TRs were able to characterize identity and positionality while only a few were able to characterize diversity, inclusion, and social justice in their lesson plans. The findings also contribute to a growing body of literature on how programs may support CT integration in STEM equity pedagogy.
AB - Situated in an urban teacher residency program at the University of California, Los Angeles, that aims to prepare high school teachers for integrating computational thinking (CT) into equity-focused STEM teaching, this paper investigates the impact of the STEM+C3 program on preservice teachers' conceptualizations and integration of CT in classrooms. Our analysis of 10 interviews suggests that the STEM+C3 program had an overall positive impact on teaching residents' (TRs) understandings of equity-centered practices in CT pedagogy with a few teachers demonstrating shallower understandings. Most TRs were able to characterize identity and positionality while only a few were able to characterize diversity, inclusion, and social justice in their lesson plans. The findings also contribute to a growing body of literature on how programs may support CT integration in STEM equity pedagogy.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105005827250
U2 - 10.22318/icls2024.811455
DO - 10.22318/icls2024.811455
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105005827250
T3 - Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
SP - 1674
EP - 1677
BT - ISLS Annual Meeting 2024
A2 - Lindgren, Robb
A2 - Asino, Tutaleni
A2 - Kyza, Eleni A.
A2 - Looi, Chee-Kit
A2 - Keifert, D. Teo
A2 - Suarez, Enrique
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
T2 - 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2024
Y2 - 10 June 2024 through 14 June 2024
ER -