We are pleased to announce the

		  Summer 2000 TeachScheme! Workshops

	  http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/Teaching/Workshops/

These are FREE curricular enrichment workshops conducted by computer
scientists from Rice University and the University of Utah.  The
workshops introduce participants to a revolutionary approach to
teaching computer science.

The introductory portion of this material caters especially to
beginning students, eg, in a pre-AP preparatory course.  The advanced
portions provide accomplished students with a challenging preview of
university-level computer science.  Teachers who have used it have
been enthusiastic about the results.

This new approach is founded on three pillars:

- A *design methodology* that helps even weak students proceed
  methodically from problems on paper to well-designed programs.

- A modern, student-friendly programming environment that introduces
  the language as a series of layers, so that students are not
  inadvertently affected by advanced features.  The environment runs
  on all major platforms, and programs written in it behave
  identically on all platforms, even when they employ sophisticated
  graphical and other operations.

- A syntactically simple, yet highly expressive, programming language
  that serves as an ideal introduction to other languages like Java,
  and reflects the current state of computer science.

All this material is available free-of-cost on the Web.

The workshops run for a week.  We cover not only curricular content,
but also issues that arise in teaching this material.  Past attendees
who have implemented the material in their classes serve as master
teachers.  The program is also open to college faculty.

For more information, please consult the Web site listed above.  If
you have specific questions, write to <mailto:scheme@cs.rice.edu>.

The TeachScheme! Project
Rice University
The University of Utah