Computer Science Teacher

Just announced via the CSTA member email system – registration is now open for this summer’s Annual CSTA conference. Some great sessions in ...

Code.org has released their highly anticipated video to encourage more people, especially students, to learn how to code for computers. It’s...

School vacation week for me this week. Trying to get some work done around the house, relax a bit, grade a bunch and of course plan for the ...

My job at Microsoft was to promote the use of Microsoft tools for computer science education. It was a great job and I was promoting tools t...

On one hand this is great. The President of the United States promotes computer science education. On the other hand he talks about it prima...

I was sitting around thinking about high school computer science curriculum last night when the idea of a programming languages survey cours...

One of the things that has happened over the last few years is that I have learned what I needed on a just in time basis. That is to say th...

Another snowy weekend in New Hampshire for me. Not a bad thing as I had a lot of grading to catch up on. But today is a holiday for my schoo...

Many years ago I was privileged to take the famous four day course taught by W Edwards Deming . Deming is widely credited with turning aroun...

Anyone who has spent time in a classroom knows that there are some students, usually a small number, to take up most of the class participat...

This year I am experimenting with scaffolding to help students get started with projects. For example I started one group with a project to ...

There is some good news from the UK in that Computer Science is going to be part of English Baccalaureate (secondary school) program there....

I found this very interesting info graphic (OK Doug Peterson tweeted the link so really he found it first) from Seattle University at Traini...

The About the Program page for the CS Principles , A New First Course in Computing website has some updated documents since the last time...

Last week was a great one for me. It ended with a massive snowstorm that hit New Hampshire Friday though Saturday. I love snow and we haven’...

Yesterday I had a situation where several students were playing catch up after absences and the rest of the class had finished a programming...

Last week my friend Tom Indelicato who talking to his Advanced Placement Computer Science students about sorting. As is necessary this invol...

The Focus ( Finding Outstanding Classrooms Using Social media ) is an  online video show started by Don Wettrick to showcase GREAT teachers...

I’ve really loved using XNA Game Studio for game development. I think its been a great tool for hobbyists, students and even serious casua...

I was flat out all last week teaching full-time. It was a good week even though a bit stressful. Starting teaching new courses, especially a...