Teacher program

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The Scalable Game Design project supports teachers through a grant by the National Science Foundation.

Contents

Teachers will learn

  • how to teach computer science through scalable game design
  • how to guide students in designing and building games
  • how to work with game design patterns
  • how game design maps to the ISTE standards
  • how to use the AgentSheets software

Teachers will receive

  • up to 3 University of Colorado (Boulder) continuing education credits
  • a stipend of $25/hour
  • travel and subsistence expenses
  • support from research team, including lesson plans and other teaching material
  • support in the classroom from undergraduate students local to each region (from CU, community colleges, tribal colleges)

Teachers will have to

  • attend an all-expenses-paid week-long summer workshop at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Summer 2009 workshop is tentatively scheduled for June 8-12, 2009.
  • teach a one-week motivational game-design module in a required (or "forced elective") computer education course using teaching material provided by research team
  • teach a four-week in-depth game design module in an elective course using teaching material provided by research team
  • administer motivational questionnaires to students

Teachers are encouraged to

  • contribute to Game Wiki by improving existing teaching material and submitting new ones

Details

Summer Institute 2009 week 2 schedule (student and teachers)

Goals_for_Week_2_Summer_Institute_Training

Application

End of Course Survey for Teachers

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