TY - GEN
T1 - Software design course for leading CS in-service teachers
AU - Brandes, Ofra
AU - Vilner, Tamar
AU - Zur, Ela
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The Computer Science (CS) discipline is continually developing. Consequently there are frequent changes in curricula and their implementations. The CS teachers, who usually work in schools alone or in small teams, are seriously challenged by the changes, since all their teaching materials and pedagogical methods have to be revised. In Israel, the secondary school CS program has recently shifted from the procedural to the OOP paradigm. This paper discusses an approach taken to address the ensuing difficulties, namely a course for leading teachers. The paper describes the rationale of leading teachers, and a course conducted for them in an advanced unit in the CS program. The main purpose of the course was to develop a professional leadership of CS teachers who can support and contribute to their peers. The paper describes the expectations of the course; its progress; and the conclusions about its success obtained by analyzing data collected during the course.
AB - The Computer Science (CS) discipline is continually developing. Consequently there are frequent changes in curricula and their implementations. The CS teachers, who usually work in schools alone or in small teams, are seriously challenged by the changes, since all their teaching materials and pedagogical methods have to be revised. In Israel, the secondary school CS program has recently shifted from the procedural to the OOP paradigm. This paper discusses an approach taken to address the ensuing difficulties, namely a course for leading teachers. The paper describes the rationale of leading teachers, and a course conducted for them in an advanced unit in the CS program. The main purpose of the course was to develop a professional leadership of CS teachers who can support and contribute to their peers. The paper describes the expectations of the course; its progress; and the conclusions about its success obtained by analyzing data collected during the course.
KW - In-service teachers
KW - Leading teachers
KW - Software design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=72449135351&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-11376-5_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-11376-5_6
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AN - SCOPUS:72449135351
SN - 3642113753
SN - 9783642113758
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 49
EP - 60
BT - Teaching Fundamental Concepts of Informatics - 4th International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 4th International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2010
Y2 - 13 January 2010 through 15 January 2010
ER -