Guide to Teaching Computer Science: An Activity-Based Approach

✍ Scribed by Orit Hazzan, Tami Lapidot, Noa Ragonis (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 306
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This textbook presents both a conceptual framework and detailed implementation guidelines for computer science (CS) teaching. Updated with the latest teaching approaches and trends, and expanded with new learning activities, the content of this new edition is clearly written and structured to be applicable to all levels of CS education and for any teaching organization. Features: provides 110 detailed learning activities; reviews curriculum and cross-curriculum topics in CS; explores the benefits of CS education research; describes strategies for cultivating problem-solving skills, for assessing learning processes, and for dealing with pupils’ misunderstandings; proposes active-learning-based classroom teaching methods, including lab-based teaching; discusses various types of questions that a CS instructor or trainer can use for a range of teaching situations; investigates thoroughly issues of lesson planning and course design; examines the first field teaching experiences gained by CS teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction—What Is this Guide About?....Pages 1-14
Active Learning and Active-Learning-Based Teaching Model....Pages 15-22
Overview of the Discipline of Computer Science....Pages 23-53
Research in Computer Science Education 4....Pages 55-73
Problem-Solving Strategies....Pages 75-93
Learners’ Alternative Conceptions....Pages 95-104
Teaching Methods in Computer Science Education....Pages 105-135
Lab-Based Teaching....Pages 137-161
Types of Questions in Computer Science Education....Pages 163-185
Assessment....Pages 187-205
Teaching Planning....Pages 207-219
Integrated View at the MTCS Course Organization: The Case of Recursion....Pages 221-241
Getting Experience in Computer Science Education....Pages 243-261
Design of Methods of Teaching Computer Science Course....Pages 263-268
High School Computer Science Teacher Preparation Programs....Pages 269-283
Epilogue....Pages 285-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-296

✦ Subjects

Computers and Education; Teaching and Teacher Education; Science Education

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