The goal of project PD4CS is to establish an evidence-based professional development (PD) program to improve teachers' knowledge to teach computer science, with a special focus on the effective training of teachers having limited computer science background. This is a joint effort between faculty in the College of Education, Department of Computer Science, at Purdue University and Michigan State University ,and Project Lead The Way.
The project team will (i) develop and implement a high-quality professional development approach that incorporates face-to-face training coupled with continuous online just-in-time support at a large-scale; and (ii) assess the effectiveness of that professional development at improving teachers' knowledge and skills for teaching computer science.
This is a website to provide professional development (PD) materials for computer science participating in the PD4CS pilot study. The material is desgined to provide teachers with background information on computing concepts as well as common student misconcpetions encountered when teaching introductory computer science course(s). Please login to see the PD materials
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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 1502462. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation" |