{"id":963,"date":"2009-03-08T23:41:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T23:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/computer-science-teachers-association-fixing-computer-science-teacher-certification\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T23:41:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T23:41:03","slug":"computer-science-teachers-association-fixing-computer-science-teacher-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/computer-science-teachers-association-fixing-computer-science-teacher-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science Teachers Association: Fixing Computer Science Teacher Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from <cite>http:\/\/blog.acm.org\/archives\/csta\/2009\/03\/fixing_computer.html<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.acm.org\/archives\/csta\/2009\/03\/fixing_computer.html\"> Computer Science Teachers Association: Fixing Computer Science Teacher Certification <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<!--StartFragment--><br \/>\nCSTA has recently published a white paper titled <i><b>Ensuring Exemplary<br \/>\nTeaching in an Essential Discipline: Addressing the Crisis in Computer Science<br \/>\nTeacher Certification<\/b><\/i> .<br \/>\n<!--EndFragment-->\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are considering teaching CS, an excellent read.&#160; I found it interesting because I have met all the criteria.&#160; Of course, they do find Texas has one of the better models for CS Teacher Certification. &#160; I came from the work force, went back to school to get a teaching certificate and did student teaching.&#160; The one thing I did not take then was a methodology course, though I did take one in mathematics.&#160;There was not a methodology course in CS offered in the area at the time.&#160; I am certificed in both CS and Mathematics. <\/p>\n<p>Several years after I began teaching, when we made a language change and a course change &#8212; from Computer Math to CS I (not PreAP), and from regular QBasic to Visual Basic, my district brought in a professor from UNT who taught a methodology course.&#160; It was a lot of fun, and the class even produced a book that was available to other CS teachers.&#160; What we did was to break down the curriculum in units and broke the class up into groups.&#160; Each group produced curriculum materials for their unit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve since earned a Master&#8217;s Degree majoring in Computer Education and Cognitive Studies that really brought everything together for me curriculum wise.<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to see that CSTA has validated my experiences becoming a teacher.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from http:\/\/blog.acm.org\/archives\/csta\/2009\/03\/fixing_computer.html: Computer Science Teachers Association: Fixing Computer Science Teacher Certification CSTA has recently published a white paper titled Ensuring Exemplary Teaching in an Essential Discipline: Addressing the Crisis in Computer Science Teacher Certification . If you are considering teaching CS, an excellent read.&#160; I found it interesting because I have met all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","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=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}