I have been reading several of the blog posts on teaching Computer Science Education and want to chime in.<\/p>\n
I have a Master’s\tDegree from the University of North Texas called Computer Education and Cognitive Studies. I worked towards this degree for a long time.<\/p>\n
I got my teaching certificate while doing course work at Texas Woman’s University which is down the road. I only had to take one CS class while doing that — and it didn’t have anything to do with teaching. I did have to take several math courses which DID help me towards teaching both math and computer science (and I am certified in both).<\/p>\n
When my district transitioned out of teaching computer math and into computer science, we brought in a professor from UNT who designed a course for us which was a CS pedagogy course. I think I’ve blogged about it before, but as a group we developed the original scope and sequence for our computer science course and a lot of the lessons.<\/p>\n
I’ve gone from that point and evolved our district course offerings from there — yes, I’ve been on every committee which has shaped our current curriculum and actually spent last year writing the current CS and PreAP CS curriculum. I will probably work more on the CS, and have asked for another person to work on the PreAP, hopefully she has time.<\/p>\n
The master’s degree focused on just about all phases of CS education. While working on it, I earned my Tech Applications certification (we didn’t have a test at the time), so we worked on teaching things like web mastering, multimedia projects, but very little of that was directly applicable to Computer Science Education. However, whenever I was able to define my own projects, I did focus on CS. Found quite a bit of interesting research towards teaching CS, but there could certainly be more.<\/p>\n
Another facet of my degree focused on online education and I’ve even taught CS online. It’s tough and it takes a very self-directed student, and those are hard to fine.<\/p>\n
I think we should have more CS Education programs. I also think that if it not directly available, the programs can be found. I do believe UNT teaches the CECS program online — I did take two courses completely online and was very successful.
I have been reading several of the blog posts on teaching Computer Science Education and want to chime in. I have a Master’s Degree from the University of North Texas called Computer Education and Cognitive Studies. I worked towards this degree for a long time. I got my teaching certificate while doing course work at […]<\/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-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}