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Empowering information technology teachers through professional development: an evaluation

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Elsa Mentz,

Roxanne Bailey,

Betty Breed,

Marietjie HavengaAuthors Info & Claims

WiPSE '13: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education

Pages 37 - 38

https://doi.org/10.1145/2532748.2532775

Published: 11 November 2013 Publication History

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To assist Information Technology (IT) teachers in their endeavour to keep up with the rapid changes in the curriculum, we implemented two approaches to professional development. In this poster we will illustrate the comparison between the traditional training-based professional development (currently implemented to train IT teachers), our face-to-face professional development programme and our multimedia-based professional development programme by using Guskey's 21 characteristics for effective professional development. Once evaluation was completed we proposed a professional development programme incorporating the strengths of each approach evaluated in this poster.

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Sanusi IDeriba F(2024)What do we know about Computing Education in Africa? A Systematic Review of Computing Education Research LiteratureSSRN Electronic Journal10.2139/ssrn.4826205Online publication date: 2024
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4826205
Neutens Twyffels FVahrenhold JBarendsen E(2016)Teacher professional development through a physical computing workshopProceedings of the 11th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education10.1145/2978249.2978270(108-109)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2978249.2978270

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Empowering information technology teachers through professional development: an evaluation
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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WiPSE '13: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education

November 2013

141 pages

ISBN:9781450324557

DOI:10.1145/2532748

Conference Chairs:
Michael E. Caspersen
Aarhus University, Denmark
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Maria Knobelsdorf
New York University, USA
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Ralf Romeike
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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WiPSCE '13: Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education

November 11 - 13, 2013

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Sanusi IDeriba F(2024)What do we know about Computing Education in Africa? A Systematic Review of Computing Education Research LiteratureSSRN Electronic Journal10.2139/ssrn.4826205Online publication date: 2024
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4826205
Neutens Twyffels FVahrenhold JBarendsen E(2016)Teacher professional development through a physical computing workshopProceedings of the 11th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education10.1145/2978249.2978270(108-109)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2978249.2978270

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