Paper Info
Title
What does it take to Teach K12 Computer Science?: Exploring Teachers' Attitudes Towards Teaching CS K12 in Georgia
Abstract
Currently, the state of Georgia requires a CS teacher endorsement (or the passing of the CS GACE exam) to teach middle/high school computer science in public schools. However, issues such as the cost of a CS endorsement and a lack of incentives to take the endorsement may undermine the long-term efforts to establish high-quality K12 CS education in the state. This may negatively affect the broadening of CS participation efforts in the state (47% of the population in GA belongs to a minority group). In this poster, we will present preliminary results of a survey conducted with more than 200 K-12 teachers across the state of Georgia in which we explore the attitudes towards teaching K12 computer science in the state. Our goal with the collection of the data is to understand better what it would take to become a long-term CS teacher in the state.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3287324.3293790
Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer science education, computer science teacher preparation, computer science teacher training
Medical education,Population,Incentive,Computer science,Knowledge management,Minority group
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5890-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alfredo Perez1164.10
Hillary Fleenor201.35