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Teaching computer science majors about teaching computer science

Tim Bell, +1 more
- pp 541-546
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The course was designed to address the need for teachers and resources to support rapid changes in topics being taught in high schools, and helped prepare students for research in Computer Science Education, and for careers involving computing and education.
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This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a course teaching Computer Science majors about teaching Computer Science. The course was designed to address the need for teachers and resources to support rapid changes in topics being taught in high schools. It also helped prepare students for research in Computer Science Education, and for careers involving computing and education. The course is described in detail, and is evaluated based on student feedback and the outcomes from the course.

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A Case Study of the Introduction of Computer Science in NZ Schools

Tim Bell, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2014 - 
TL;DR: A series of initiatives that occurred from 2007 to 2009 that led to programming and computer science being made available formally as part of the National Certificate in Educational Achievement (NCEA), the main school-leaving assessment, in 2011 are reviewed.
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Pre-service computer science teacher training within the professional development school (PDS) collaboration framework

Noa Ragonis, +1 more
TL;DR: The significant advantages that can be gained using PDS principles are presented and different activities performed in order to gain them within the training of CS student teachers are demonstrated.
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Research-Based learning revisited: on using a delphi process in informatics teacher education

Holger Danielsiek, +2 more
TL;DR: A variant of research-based learning in which teacher-training students in informatics courses were asked to participate in a Delphi process aimed at assessing the importance and difficulty of selected topics in lower secondary informatics education is presented.
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Changing the Perception of Computer Science: A Visual, Activity-Based Cu rriculum

Ali Fatolahi, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2011 - 
TL;DR: A visual activity-based curriculum to introduce high school students to CS is presented and the results are so far extremely positive.
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Computer Science in New Zealand high schools

Tim Bell, +2 more
TL;DR: The New Zealand Ministry of Education has recently released a new "Digital Technologies" proposal for delivering computing topics in the final three years of high school as mentioned in this paper, which aims to address a number of issues by offering topics that will be academically challenging for students, and provide them with a broader view of the kinds of advanced topics they might study beyond high school.
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A model for improving secondary CS education

Barbara Ericson, +2 more
TL;DR: This paper describes how the Institute for Computing Education at Georgia Tech is trying to improve the state of computer science education in secondary schools in Georgia and believes that this partnership can serve as a model for other states.
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The Shallow end

Robert Shallow
- 01 Jun 1980 - 
TL;DR: For instance, this paper wrote: "I hate Monday mornings, all publishers, literary editors of news‐papers and magazines, most so-called fellow authors, the telly and my grasping agent Fiona, probably in that order."