Everything i needed to know about teaching i learned in kindergarten: Bringing elementary education techniques to undergraduate computer science classes

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 224-228

  Pollard, Shannon ^a   Duvall, Robert C ^b  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Active teaching; Classroom management; Curriculum issues; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SCIENCE CLASSES; CURRICULUM ISSUES;

CURRICULA; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 37849029613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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