TY - GEN
T1 - From professional development to the classroom
T2 - 48th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2017
AU - Pollock, Lori
AU - Mouza, Chrystalla
AU - Czik, Amanda
AU - Little, Alexis
AU - Coffey, Debra
AU - Buttram, Joan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/3/8
Y1 - 2017/3/8
N2 - The CS for All initiative places increased emphasis on the need to prepare K-12 teachers of computer science (CS). Professional development (PD) programs continue to be an essential mechanism for preparing in-service teachers who have little formal background in CS content, skills, and teaching pedagogy. While increased investment by federal agencies and the industry has raised the number of CS PD opportunities for K-12 teachers, there has been limited study of how teachers apply what they learn back in their classroom. This paper describes an in-depth qualitative study through interviews of 28 elementary, middle and high school teachers who participated in summer PD in preparation of teaching a full CS course or integrate CS modules into existing courses (e.g., science, engineering, business, technology, etc). The interview protocol focused on educators' involvement in the PD, specific skills and strategies they learned, whether and how they have been able to apply these new skills in the classroom, what facilitated or impeded this application, and how students have responded.
AB - The CS for All initiative places increased emphasis on the need to prepare K-12 teachers of computer science (CS). Professional development (PD) programs continue to be an essential mechanism for preparing in-service teachers who have little formal background in CS content, skills, and teaching pedagogy. While increased investment by federal agencies and the industry has raised the number of CS PD opportunities for K-12 teachers, there has been limited study of how teachers apply what they learn back in their classroom. This paper describes an in-depth qualitative study through interviews of 28 elementary, middle and high school teachers who participated in summer PD in preparation of teaching a full CS course or integrate CS modules into existing courses (e.g., science, engineering, business, technology, etc). The interview protocol focused on educators' involvement in the PD, specific skills and strategies they learned, whether and how they have been able to apply these new skills in the classroom, what facilitated or impeded this application, and how students have responded.
KW - Computational thinking
KW - CS education
KW - CS principles
KW - K12
KW - Teacher professional development
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U2 - 10.1145/3017680.3017739
DO - 10.1145/3017680.3017739
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018289603
T3 - Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 477
EP - 482
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 -