Barbara J. Ericson
Mark Guzdial
Tom McKlin
ABSTRACT
An enormous challenge to computing education in secondary schools worldwide is the lack of secondary computer science teachers. The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) has been offering teacher professional development in an attempt to increase the quantity and quality of secondary computing teachers in Georgia in the United States of America since 2004. We have developed our teacher professional development over the last ten years with an iterative cycle of design, development, delivery, and evaluation.
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- Preparing secondary computer science teachers through an iterative development process
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