Implementing a University Level Computer Education Course For Preservice Teachers Dede Heidt Instructional Computer Specialist Fort Bend Independent School District James Poirot Chairman, Department of Computer Education and Cognitive Systems North Texas State University The long recognized problem of teacher retraining in computing has received considerable attention over the past several years. For the computer to be introduced in the classroom, teachers in the field had to be retrained to teach with and to teach about this new technology. The retraining of teachers, however, is not the only problem that needs to be addressed. We need to be serving the needs of teachers who are now being prepared to go into the classroom, that is, the preservice teacher, so that he or she is not immediately faced with a retraining need upon graduation. The elementary school teacher (and all teachers for that matter) receive their preservice training at the University level. It is imperative that the graduates of our universities receive an adequate background in the utilization of the computer in the classroom prior to their graduation. It is unfortunate, however, that even though computing technology is pervasive in the pre-college market, the training of elementary school teachers
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Implementing a University level computer education course for preservice teachers
Heidt, Dede; Poirot, James
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1988
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