On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was just talking with Selena Deckelmann about computer science in > K12, a conversation partially spurred by this report: > > http://www.acm.org/runningonempty/ > > We were talking about the advantage of having a national CS curriculum > definition and reference certification. (Recognizing that states set > their own standards, yet the vast majority haven't, so providing a > reference certification may have some value.) > > I'm curious if anyone knows of an existing K12 teacher certification > for computer science? > > In other words, does it exist and just needs promoting? Or does it > need creating?
There is some continuing education material posted on the CSTA website, but it doesn't seem to match the certification question: http://csta.acm.org/ProfessionalDevelopment/sub/TeacherWorkshops.html And just in case someone finds it interesting, here's the CSTA's recommendations on K-12 CS education standards: http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/K12Standards.html Cheers, LH > Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth > http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com > @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFQGCjx2ZIOBq0ODEERAuPrAJ9p1tP+zfX4UGOjhg+Z5KHzREJKOwCfTvDh > jf8xlapT70sSBpgU0Li85PY= > =7ZrO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos -- Leslie Hawthorn http://hawthornlandings.org http://identi.ca/lh http://twitter.com/lhawthorn _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
