The Education group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) offers a wide range of community outreach programs that brings cutting-edge research and science curriculum to students, teachers and parents. SDSC provides support to both local and national entities that promote mathematics and science education for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate level students. The San Diego Supercomputer Center invites you to explore our site and see what exciting programs we offer to teachers and students.
News and Highlights
ComPASS: Computing Principles for All Students' Success
The University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University have teamed up to deliver an exciting new curriculum in San Diego county: the Computing Principles for All Students’ Success (ComPASS) Project. ComPASS will build local capacity for teaching the proposed new Advanced Placement CS Principles (CSP) course. ComPASS will create novel curricula and methodology content for teacher profession development.
Visit TeacherTECH’s Facebook Page
Visit our new Facebook page and share ideas, start a discussion and see what TeacherTECH has to offer in terms of workshops, videos and photo albums from past events. Post your resources, ideas and videos. The goal is to provide a forum for collaborative interaction among educators not only in San Diego, but nationally and around the globe.
To view TeacherTECH’s Facebook page, please see TeacherTECH on Facebook.
Computational Thinking: A Problem-Solving Tool For Every Classroom
The Computer Science Teachers Association and Microsoft have teamed up to create an excellent overview of computational thinking and have compiled a useful list of computational resources for teachers and students. Click the link below to open the PDF document:
Open the PDF
UCSD is a proud collaborative partner of the San Diego Science Festival.
K-12 Professional Development Offered by the San Diego County Office of Education
Are you up for a little professional learning to sharpen your skills? Data Intensive Science, Environmental Education, Robotics, Science Fair, Family Science, High School Science Forums and more are all offered to interested teachers by the San Diego County Office of Education, Science Department!. Log on today and enroll in an opportunity for youand/or your students! For additional information, please contact Nancy Taylor, K-12 Science Coordinator, ntaylor@sdcoe.net.
To view the 2011-2012 Professional Development calendar, please see http://www.sdcoe.net/pd_calend.asp.
Upcoming SDSC Workshops
There are no upcoming workshops at this time.
For more information, visit the SDSC Training page at:
http://www.sdsc.edu/us/training/workshops.php?status=upcoming
