Computer Science Teacher

From time to time I like to highlight computer science teachers with virtual interviews posted on my blog. The first series was in 2013 ( CS...

Michelle Lagos serves on the CSTA Board which is how I first met her. She is currently an At-Large member. Several years ago she was the Int...

My programming students are learning about methods. Functions, subroutines, what ever you want to call them they are important. Coming up wi...

I met Mike Thompson (no relation) just recently. He was giving a professional development session on teaching middle school students with Ap...

It’s that time again! I have to get to work on a proposal. Or two. This is the best conference for computer science educators. If you have s...

Bob Irving teaches middle school students and seems to have a lot of fun doing so. He constantly learning new things to share with his stude...

My first teaching jobs were teaching in a pair of schools (half time in each) where I saw students from kindergarten through eight grade. It...

Rebecca Dovi is a ball of energy. She is full of ideas and always doing cool things. When I last interviewed her ( http://blog.acthompson.ne...

I believe I first met Saber Khan over Twitter. Since them we have interacted in a number of ways on and off line. We met face to face for th...

People keep asking me what required course I would remove to make room for a required computer science course. So I decided to take a look a...

It seems like every time someone suggests that computer science be a required school subject someone (sometimes several people) bring up on ...

Last night a teacher friend of mine gave me a USB stick with the projects he uses with his students. I have projects for C++, Python, Java, ...

Something that looks interesting at least in Congressional Districts where there is a sponsor. Visit the web site to check it out. Congressi...

Earlier this week my AP CS Principles classes were discussing the difference between latency and bandwidth. My curriculum resource (I’m usin...

The curriculum I am using for Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles is the excellent Code.Org curriculum. I really like the Interne...

Several of my students have applied for this award and all found it quite worthwhile.There are many benefits for students in high school and...

I'm told this will be very well worth the time. I may even join with my Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles students. We are ...

A little Tuesday humor. I think I may use this to help students understand the importance of good variable names and other identifiers.

We’re studying how the Internet works in my AP CS Principles course. I wanted a little exercise to help students understand how DNS servers ...

Generally speaking I am a roll my own sort of teacher when it comes to curriculum. This year that is a bit overwhelming because I am teachin...