TY - GEN
T1 - "Not My Subject"?
T2 - 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2021
AU - Mann, Michael
AU - Bui, Ha
AU - Gibbons, Benjamin
AU - Lishinski, Alex
AU - Dyer, Elizabeth
AU - Rosenberg, Joshua
AU - Longnecker, Jennifer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Owner/Author.
PY - 2021/3/3
Y1 - 2021/3/3
N2 - Around the United States, educators are teaching new computer science (CS) education standards, including in Tennessee, which announced its first K-8 CS standards in 2018. In Tennessee, the standards are now the official guidelines for CS education at the K-8 level, what barriers prevent CS teaching and learning to become a reality, especially for elementary and middle grades teachers, are unknown. We developed and administered a needs survey for K-8 teachers regarding CS education as a part of a broader community-engaged project. From 251 K-8 teachers' responses, we found that CS is important to them, but there are barriers to meeting the standards. Qualitative items about needs and barriers related to CS education teachers revealed a demand for professional development and training opportunities for teachers to learn about both the technical aspects of computing education and embedding computing ideas across the K-8 curriculum. We will discuss the implications of these findings and will describe how these results will enable our efforts to provide professional learning opportunities for educators.
AB - Around the United States, educators are teaching new computer science (CS) education standards, including in Tennessee, which announced its first K-8 CS standards in 2018. In Tennessee, the standards are now the official guidelines for CS education at the K-8 level, what barriers prevent CS teaching and learning to become a reality, especially for elementary and middle grades teachers, are unknown. We developed and administered a needs survey for K-8 teachers regarding CS education as a part of a broader community-engaged project. From 251 K-8 teachers' responses, we found that CS is important to them, but there are barriers to meeting the standards. Qualitative items about needs and barriers related to CS education teachers revealed a demand for professional development and training opportunities for teachers to learn about both the technical aspects of computing education and embedding computing ideas across the K-8 curriculum. We will discuss the implications of these findings and will describe how these results will enable our efforts to provide professional learning opportunities for educators.
KW - computer science education
KW - computing education
KW - cs integration
KW - teacher perceptions
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U2 - 10.1145/3408877.3439666
DO - 10.1145/3408877.3439666
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85103342338
T3 - SIGCSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 1343
BT - SIGCSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 13 March 2021 through 20 March 2021
ER -