Practicum: Getting Experience in Computer Science Education
摘要
This chapter deals with the teaching experience that the students enrolled in the MTCS course gain before becoming computer science teachers. We present three frameworks in which the prospective computer science teachers gain their first teaching experience: (1) The practicum, which takes place in high school, after one or two semesters of learning the MTCS course; (2) computer science teacher training in the framework of Professional Development School (PDS) collaboration; and (3) a tutoring framework that can be integrated in the MTCS course. The activities in this chapter can be facilitated in the MTCS course as a preparation towards the practicum, which the prospective computer science teachers usually perform after they learn the MTCS course.