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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb 2025 14:22 - 14:41 at Meeting Rooms 306-307 - CSForAll K-12

Despite widespread recognition of the importance of computer science (CS) education and an increased focus on computational thinking (CT) instruction in the U.S., there remains a significant shortage of qualified K-12 CS teachers. Preparing preservice teachers to teach CS is essential for ensuring a sustainable future for CS education. This experience report presents a CT/CS module initiative designed to prepare secondary preservice science and math teachers to teach CT/CS through an instructional methods course that integrates instructional practice within an elementary after-school program. This initiative employs the preservice teacher preparation framework (Mason & Rich, 2019) that includes the observe-practice-reflect cycle. Within this framework, the preservice teachers began with incorporating unplugged lessons and then transitioned to robotics to teach CT/CS concepts. In this experience report, we detail the design and implementation of this CT/CS module initiative and share findings that revealed the preservice teachers’ increased confidence, adaptations in lesson planning, and the challenges faced in teaching CT/CS. These takeaways aim to inspire and inform other teacher educators and practitioners working to prepare the next generation of CS teachers.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb

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13:45 - 15:00
13:45
18m
Talk
Building Teacher and Community Networks for Sustainable Middle School Computer Science Education: Experiences from Two Pairs of TeachersK12
Papers
Elizabeth Thomas-Cappello University of Albany, State University of New York, Lijun Ni University at Albany, Gillian Bausch University at Albany, Fred Martin University of Texas at San Antonio, Bernardo Feliciano University of Massachusetts Lowell, Foozieh Mir University of Massachusetts Lowell, Diane Schilder Evaluation Analysis Solutions, Inc.
14:03
18m
Talk
Engaging K-12 Students with Flow-Based Music Programming: An Experience Report on Its Impact on Teaching and LearningK12
Papers
Zifeng Liu University of Florida, Shan Zhang University of Florida, Maya Israel University of Florida, Robert Smith University of Florida, Wanli Xing University of Florida, Victor Minces University of California, San Diego
14:22
18m
Talk
Introducing Computational Thinking and Computer Science Instruction to Preservice Science and Math TeachersK12
Papers
Meize Guo University of Idaho, Minji Yun University of Florida, Maya Israel University of Florida
14:41
18m
Talk
Teaching Computing to K-12 Emergent Bilinguals: Identified Challenges and OpportunitiesK12
Papers
Emma R. Dodoo University of Michigan, Tamara Nelson-Fromm University of Michigan, Mark Guzdial University of Michigan