Paper Info
Title
Building a community to support HS CS teachers: the disciplinary commons for computing educators
Abstract
In this paper, we describe our experience in supporting high school CS teachers by building a local community through the Disciplinary Commons for Computing Educators (DCCE) project. The DCCE project is an effort to explore ways of supporting these CS teachers through the creation of a local community and by promoting teacher reflection. DCCE achieved this goal through an academic-year-long program where a cohort of CS teachers engaged in collaborative portfolio creation and peer observation of classroom teaching. We describe the design of the DCCE activities and present preliminary results from initial evaluations. Our short-term evaluations indicate that this project was successful in creating a supportive community, promoting teacher reflection, and advancing change in teaching practices among a group of computing educators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1953163.1953319
SIGCSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
classroom teaching,local community,collaborative portfolio creation,supportive community,cs teacher,disciplinary common,computing educators,dcce project,hs cs teacher,teaching practice,dcce activity,teacher reflection,reflection,community
Local community,Computer science,Discipline,Knowledge management,Portfolio,Pedagogy,Multimedia,Commons
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.42
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lijun Ni112811.77
Mark Guzdial22274354.35
Allison Elliott Tew330637.83
Briana Morrison4607.25
Ria Galanos5172.44