TY - GEN
T1 - SWOT Analysis of Two Different Designs of Summer Professional Development Institutes for K-8 CS Teachers
AU - Morrow, Patrick
AU - Soh, Leen Kiat
AU - Nugent, Gwen
AU - Smith, Wendy
AU - Trainin, Guy
AU - Steen, Kent
N1 - Funding Information:
VIII.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 1837476. All findings and opinions are those of the authors and not necessarily of the funding agency. The authors would like to acknowledge the instructors and teaching assistants and the teachers of the two summer institutes.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Increasingly professional development (PD) programs have been designed and implemented for pre-service and in-service teachers to acquire CS content knowledge and CS pedagogy and instructional strategies for K-12 students. This paper reports on our adaptation, implementation and research program for K-8 CS teachers across a Midwestern state. More specifically, its PD program for K-8 CS teachers consists of a summer institute with two graduate courses and a series of Saturday workshops during the subsequent academic year. This paper focuses on the two summer courses: one on CS knowledge content including computational thinking, variables, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and algorithms, and one instructional strategies, student pedagogy, computer-aided education resources, and community building. We report our SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis of the two summer institutes involving the two courses to identify what went well and what needed improvement. This paper also reviews best practices for summer PD.
AB - Increasingly professional development (PD) programs have been designed and implemented for pre-service and in-service teachers to acquire CS content knowledge and CS pedagogy and instructional strategies for K-12 students. This paper reports on our adaptation, implementation and research program for K-8 CS teachers across a Midwestern state. More specifically, its PD program for K-8 CS teachers consists of a summer institute with two graduate courses and a series of Saturday workshops during the subsequent academic year. This paper focuses on the two summer courses: one on CS knowledge content including computational thinking, variables, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and algorithms, and one instructional strategies, student pedagogy, computer-aided education resources, and community building. We report our SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis of the two summer institutes involving the two courses to identify what went well and what needed improvement. This paper also reviews best practices for summer PD.
KW - SWOT analysis
KW - computer science
KW - professional development
KW - teachers
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U2 - 10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637451
DO - 10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637451
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85123835189
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
BT - Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2021
Y2 - 13 October 2021 through 16 October 2021
ER -