STEM teaching as an additional profession for scientists and engineers: The case of computer science education

SIGCSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 181-186

  Hazzan, Orit ^a   Ragonis, Noa ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

CS education and the job market; CS teacher preparation; CS teachers; CS teaching as a second career; STEM education

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; HIGH SCHOOL TEACHINGS; JOB MARKET; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; STEM EDUCATION; TEACHER PREPARATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84899754615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2538862.2538879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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