TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching CS to CS teachers
T2 - 48th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2017
AU - Leyzberg, Dan
AU - Moretti, Christopher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/3/8
Y1 - 2017/3/8
N2 - Two-thirds of all computer science teachers in the United States do not have a degree in computer science. As demand for K-12 computer science education continues to grow, and as industry continues to lure computer science graduates away from careers in education, school administrators are increasingly forced to ask teachers with little formal training in computer science to teach computer science courses. This is such a common phenomenon that there are now many competing summer professional development programs aimed at training teachers of other subjects to teach a first course in computer science. However, once these teachers become comfortable teaching the introductory material, there is little support available for them to gain more content knowledge to be able to support their more advanced students or design additional computer science courses. In this paper, we describe our approach to providing more advanced computer science content knowledge to computer science teachers in a week-long summer professional development pro- gram.
AB - Two-thirds of all computer science teachers in the United States do not have a degree in computer science. As demand for K-12 computer science education continues to grow, and as industry continues to lure computer science graduates away from careers in education, school administrators are increasingly forced to ask teachers with little formal training in computer science to teach computer science courses. This is such a common phenomenon that there are now many competing summer professional development programs aimed at training teachers of other subjects to teach a first course in computer science. However, once these teachers become comfortable teaching the introductory material, there is little support available for them to gain more content knowledge to be able to support their more advanced students or design additional computer science courses. In this paper, we describe our approach to providing more advanced computer science content knowledge to computer science teachers in a week-long summer professional development pro- gram.
KW - K-12
KW - Professional development
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U2 - 10.1145/3017680.3017798
DO - 10.1145/3017680.3017798
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018261405
T3 - Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 369
EP - 374
BT - SIGCSE 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 8 March 2017 through 11 March 2017
ER -