The ISTE Standards for Computer Science Educators describe
what computer science teachers must know and be able to do to help students effectively integrate these essential concepts.
Not exact matches
First, check if your
science fair has a
computer science category and check with your
teacher or fair organizer about
what types of projects will be accepted.
But rather than investing solely in training new
teachers, we should unlock the existing
computer science talent awash in our tech industry and invest in building channels that bring outside experts into classrooms to supplement
what teachers are doing.
While the
computer science teacher often read the directions for students and would translate them into «plain speak,» he did not necessarily focus on the direction words or
what role they played in following a program or in writing a basic program.
EDUTOPIA:
What helps to build
teachers» confidence to give
computer science a go in the classroom, even in small ways?
«
What I am seeing now,»
computer science teacher Carla Cruzan told Education World, «is that there is no getting around the problem of young children being placed in front of keyboards.
If you're a
teacher and you're suddenly told you have to teach this thing called
Computer Science (which you may not even know
what it is really), then being able to work with familiar resources is a really easy way to get into it, rather than being told «by the way first of all install this, buy this robot kit and get funding for this and learn how to do that... it's not compatible... sort that out» and so on.
You have finished your initial
teacher training and managed to get a job as an NQT
what you hope is a nice
computer science department.
They are tools that allow
teachers to gather information about
what students can actually do with
what they are learning —
science experiments that students design, carry out, analyze, and write up;
computer programs that students create and test out; research inquiries that they pursue, seeking and assembling evidence about a question, and presenting in written and oral form.
You have finished your initial
teacher training and managed to get a job as an NQT in
what you hope is a nice
computer science department.
Many of the people I know who were interested in a career in technology are now reconsidering because the
computer science teacher refuses to teach or even change her presentations from
what they were 4 years ago.