{"id":1205,"date":"2007-07-04T18:50:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T18:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/computer-scienc-7\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T18:50:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T18:50:48","slug":"computer-scienc-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/computer-scienc-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : Why would you want to teach high school computer science?"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Alfred asks why — well, one of my fellow “new” CS teachers in my district could probably tell you better.  <\/p>\n

Yes, Alfred, we do have a young man — in his 20’s, I believe who is going to start his 3rd year of teaching.  He took over a program from an existing teacher, pretty early in the first year.  <\/p>\n

I don’t know all of the details, but I do know that his family are teachers.  He did work in technology for a while before he decided to try teaching.  It was also very difficult for him to get his first teaching gig, and he got a really good one.  It’s a 5A school, so he should be able to teach CS full time.<\/p>\n

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There is seldom a stand alone CS teacher certification. In fact if there is one I am not sure I know where it is. How do you even know what\/how to prepare?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : Why would you want to teach high school computer science?<\/a> <\/p>\n

Alfred also asked is there are any CS teacher certifications.  Texas DOES have one, and does have several programs to prepare.  Texas had one when I got certified, and since I had a BS degree in CS had to go through what they called at the time a defiency plan.  I chose to get secondary certification through Texas Woman’s University and to get both math and computer science.  I had to take all the teacher courses, Texas Political Science, Speech, one computer science course, and enough math courses to meet my defiency in math.  I then had to pass a test.  Of course that was 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

We had a period of where we transitioned to a different certification system, and for about 5 years there was not a formal state certification.  However, TEA did approve several programs including an online and summer program through Texas A&M that gave certification.<\/p>\n

I don’t know the details, but we do have an certification plan now, and I do know that someone who is already certified can take an test to add the certification.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Alfred asks why — well, one of my fellow “new” CS teachers in my district could probably tell you better.  Yes, Alfred, we do have a young man — in his 20’s, I believe who is going to start his 3rd year of teaching.  He took over a program from an existing teacher, pretty early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}