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Teacher professional development through a physical computing workshop

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WiPSCE '16: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2978249.2978270

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In recent years there has been a push towards more CS and STEM education in Flanders. These two domains require a set of skills with which teachers are currently often unfamiliar. To enable teachers to acquire these skills, professional development programs should be implemented. In this paper we first present a way of identifying the properties of such a program to allow comparison with other programs. Next, we describe a professional development program in the form of a physical computing workshop.

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WiPSCE '16: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education

October 2016

124 pages

ISBN:9781450342230

DOI:10.1145/2978249

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Bonani AGennari RMelonio AVittorini P(2025)A rapid and inclusive instrument for assessing children’s basic understanding of physical computingInternational Journal of Child-Computer Interaction10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.10070943(100709)Online publication date: Mar-2025
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100709
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