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Grand challenges for the UK: Upskilling teachers to teach computer science within the secondary curriculum

Sue Sentance, Mark Dorling, Adam McNicol, Tom Crick Orcid Logo

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, Pages: 82 - 85

Swansea University Author: Tom Crick Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.1145/2481449.2481469

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Recent changes in UK education policy with respect to ICT and Computer Science (CS) have meant that more teachers need the skills and knowledge to teach CS in schools. This paper reports on work in progress in the UK researching models of continuing professional development (CPD) for such teachers....

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Published in: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education
ISBN: 978-1-4503-1787-0
Published: Hamburg, Germany ACM 2012
Online Access: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2481449.2481469
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