A survey of computer science teacher preparation programs in Israel tells us: Computer science deserves a designated high school teacher preparation!

SIGCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 401-405

  Ragonis, Noa ^a,b   Hazzan, Orit ^b   Gal Ezer, Judith ^c  

^a BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Computer science teacher preparation; Methods of Teaching Computer Science course; Practicum in computer science

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS; METHODS OF TEACHING COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE; TEACHER EDUCATION; TEACHER PREPARATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; SURVEYS;

TEACHING;

EID: 77952234452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734263.1734402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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