Computer Science Teacher

“Hours of coding can save you minutes of planning” We’re talking about top-down design in my APCS Principles class this week. I gave the stu...

There is some research in who t teach computer science (OK, mostly its about teaching programming but that’s important too) but not a lot of...

One of the cool things about Twitter is that some interesting discussions take place among really smart people and the rest of us get to wat...

How to evaluate computer science students is always a tough question. It’s everywhere that computer science is taught. There is something of...

I don’t know about you but I regularly go on the lookout for sound effects for projects. Today, I have to share this new source for sound fi...

There is more computer science than we could ever cover in grades K-12. So much of it is important and exciting. Every parent open house I g...

Are we using toys or tools to teach computers science? The cute little robots for example. Or Micro:bit? or any number of other fun little g...

Computer Science Education week is fast approaching. It's a big week and one of the big activities for a lot of teachers, students, and ...

Mark Guzdial has an interesting post asking When do we know that a programming course is not working for non-CS majors? The focus of the po...

My teaching style, especially in the first years, was greatly influenced by the man who taught me computer science. A wonderful man who real...

I’m always looking for new projects. I find them in the strangest places. Facebook for one. And some not so strange places. The AP CS Princi...

CSTA just announced the Call for Proposals . for the CSTA Annual Conference just days after I blogged ( Getting Computer Science Teachers To...

A number of related (well in my eyes anyway) have got me thinking about how we need to develop computer science teachers. Phil Bagge’s post ...

This is the second of these conferences. How I missed the first year I don’t remember but I’m glad I made it to this one. The conference was...

Know someone or some organization or some school responsible for doing great things in computer science education? Maybe they should be nomi...

Ethics has been on my mind a lot lately. Last week, the ACM had a Twitter chat around the ACM Code of Ethics using the hashtag #ACMCodeOfEt...

I first started to appreciate the cost of professional development when I was working with and for Microsoft. Microsoft at the time was work...

On Thursday, October 18, ACM will host a Twitter chat on ethics in computing beginning at 11:00 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC). During the chat, ACM w...

These are great chats with a lot of wonderful people sharing ideas about computer science in grades K through 8. Join us for # csk8 chat ...

My motto has long been "steal from the best" at least when it comes to teaching resources. Today I found a good project from Code....