TY - GEN
T1 - Creating an Appropriate Computer Science and Computational Thinking Graduate Curriculum for K-12 Teachers
T2 - 12th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, ISEC 2022
AU - Herbert-Berger, Katherine G.
AU - Hagiwara, Sumi
AU - Rogacki, Elizabeth M.
AU - Marlowe, Thomas J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - K-12 computer science education has challenges related to content and to teacher expertise and comfort. This is further made difficult with inconsistent standards and teacher preparation from state-to-state. We describe a K-12 Computer Science Teaching certificate program, located at Montclair State University, aimed at providing current teachers in northern New Jersey with enhanced understanding of computer science concepts, capabilities, and skills, plus scaffolding of equitable and inclusive teacher practices for applied CS pedagogy. We discuss a brief history of the field, our curriculum and approach and then our first graduating cohort's experiences and challenges. Finally, we discuss our future work.
AB - K-12 computer science education has challenges related to content and to teacher expertise and comfort. This is further made difficult with inconsistent standards and teacher preparation from state-to-state. We describe a K-12 Computer Science Teaching certificate program, located at Montclair State University, aimed at providing current teachers in northern New Jersey with enhanced understanding of computer science concepts, capabilities, and skills, plus scaffolding of equitable and inclusive teacher practices for applied CS pedagogy. We discuss a brief history of the field, our curriculum and approach and then our first graduating cohort's experiences and challenges. Finally, we discuss our future work.
KW - computational thinking
KW - computer science K-12 pedagogy
KW - computer science K-12 teacher preparation
KW - computer science education
KW - computer science education graduate curriculum development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148324920&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISEC54952.2022.10025068
DO - 10.1109/ISEC54952.2022.10025068
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85148324920
T3 - 2022 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, ISEC 2022
SP - 361
EP - 363
BT - 2022 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, ISEC 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 26 March 2022
ER -