Co-Teaching Computer Science Across Borders: Course-In-A-Box for International Intro Programming

Programming is fast becoming a required skill set for students in every country. We present CSBridge, a model for cross-border coteaching of CS1, along with a corresponding open-source coursein-a-box curriculum made for easy localization. In the CSBridge model, instructors and student-teachers from different countries come together to teach a short, stand-alone CS1 course to hundreds of local high-school students. The corresponding open-source curriculum has been specifically designed to be easily adapted to a wide variety of local teaching practices, languages, and culture. In the last six years, the curriculum has been used to teach CS1 material to over 1,000 K-12 students in: Colombia, Czech Republic, Turkey and Guinea. Joint teaching creates a positive high-quality learning experience for students around the world and a powerful, high-impact professional development experience for the teaching team—instructors and student-teachers alike.