Guide to Teaching Computer Science
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"This book represents a comprehensive collection of information that is suitable for all teachers and lecturers who deliver computer programming language courses. . This is an excellent book for computer science educators, with a wealth of information that should be used by all teaching practitioners. . I would recommend this book to all computer science educators and suggest it become mandatory reading for novice computer science teachers entering the classroom." (S. M. Godwin, Computing Reviews, June, 2015)
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Dr. Orit Hazzan is Professor and Head of the Department of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Dr. Hazzan's other publications with Springer include Agile Anywhere - Essays on Agile Projects and Beyond (2014) and Agile Software Engineering (2008).
Dr. Tami Lapidot is Executive Manager of Machshava - the Israeli National Center for Computer Science Teachers, Haifa, Israel.
Dr. Noa Ragonis is Head of the Instructional Development Center and a computer science senior lecturer at Beit Berl College, and an adjacent senior lecturer at the Department of Education in Science and Technology, Technion. Dr. Ragonis' publications include eight computer science high-school textbooks and teachers guides (in Hebrew).
Content
Introduction - What Is This Guide About?.- Active Learning and the Active-Learning-Based Teaching Model.- Overview of the Discipline of Computer Science.- Research in Computer Science Education.- Problem-Solving Strategies.- Learners' Alternative Conceptions.- Teaching Methods in Computer Science Education.- Lab-Based Teaching.- Types of Questions in Computer Science Education.- Assessment.- Teaching Planning.- Integrated View at the MTCS Course Organization: The Case of Recursion.- Getting Experience in Computer Science Education.- Design of Methods of Teaching Computer Science Course.- High School Computer Science Teacher Preparation Programs.- Epilogue.
