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Preparing secondary computer science teachers through an iterative development process

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Barbara J. Ericson,

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WiPSCE '14: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education

Pages 116 - 119

https://doi.org/10.1145/2670757.2670781

Published: 05 November 2014 Publication History

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An enormous challenge to computing education in secondary schools worldwide is the lack of secondary computer science teachers. The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) has been offering teacher professional development in an attempt to increase the quantity and quality of secondary computing teachers in Georgia in the United States of America since 2004. We have developed our teacher professional development over the last ten years with an iterative cycle of design, development, delivery, and evaluation.

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WiPSCE '14: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education

November 2014

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DOI:10.1145/2670757

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Aarhus University
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The Open University Israel

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