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International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives

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Pre-service Computer Science Teacher Training within the Professional Development School (PDS) Collaboration Framework

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The professional development school (PDS) represents a collaborative framework between high schools and teacher training institutions. The main objective of the PDS is to deepen the student teachers’ involvement in the school, to expose them to the variety of teacher work tasks, and to provide them with a wide range of experiences. This paper focuses on the development and implementation of a computer science (CS) student teacher practicum program that takes place within the PDS framework. We present the significant advantages that can be gained using PDS principles and demonstrate different activities performed in order to gain them within the training of CS student teachers. The paper reflects the accumulative knowledge acquired over the past five year at the Beit Berl College, Israel. We believe that this paper will contribute to the community of CS teacher preparation educators.

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  1. School of Education, Beit Berl College, Doar Beit Berl, 44905, Israel

    Noa Ragonis & Anat Oster-Levinz

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  1. Department of Informatics Education Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 842 48, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Ivan Kalaš

  2. Institut für Informatik-Systeme, Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Roland T. Mittermeir

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Ragonis, N., Oster-Levinz, A. (2011). Pre-service Computer Science Teacher Training within the Professional Development School (PDS) Collaboration Framework. In: Kalaš, I., Mittermeir, R.T. (eds) Informatics in Schools. Contributing to 21st Century Education. ISSEP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24722-4_10

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