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-The goal of project PD4CS is to establish an evidence-based professional development (PD) program to improve teachers' knowledge to teach computer science, with a special focus on the effective training of teachers having limited computer science background. This is a joint effort between faculty in the [[http://www.education.purdue.edu|College of Education]], [[http://www.cs.purdue.edu/|Department of Computer Science]], at Purdue University and Michigan State University and [[http://www.pltw.org | Project Lead The Way]].
+The goal of project PD4CS is to establish an evidence-based professional development (PD) program to improve teachers' knowledge to teach computer science, with a special focus on the effective training of teachers having limited computer science background. This is a joint effort between Purdue University, Michigan State University, and Project Lead The Way.
-The project team will (i) develop and implement a high-quality professional development approach that incorporates face-to-face training coupled with continuous online just-in-time support at a large-scale; and (ii) assess the effectiveness of that professional development at improving teachers' knowledge and skills for teaching computer science.
+The [[http://www.pd4cs.org/ |PD material]]  was developed along three main guidelines: (i) teaching methodologies and pedagogies grounding in computer science and educational methods, (ii) knowledge of the challenges teachers face when teaching computer science with limited domain knowledge background, and (iii) responding to misconceptions and challenges students encounter in beginning computing courses. The PD material is aligned with the curriculum of the AP CS Principles (CSP) course.
-==== In The News ====
+**Check out the PD resources at http://www.pd4cs.org/ !** Teachers are welcome to use the material as supplements to their own lessons; many topics give suggestions on how to do so.
-January 2016: Following President Obama's State of the Union Address, the [[ http://cra.org/ccc/ | CCC ]] publishes the Whitepaper on
-[[http://www.cccblog.org/2016/01/14/ccc-whitepaper-the-importance-of-computing-education-research/ | The Importance of Computing Education Research]]  having Susanne Hambrusch as one of the authors. The whitepaper recognizes the increase in the number of undergraduates declaring a computing major and suggests that right now we have an unparalleled opportunity to expand the reach of computing education through the burgeoning field of Computing Education Research (CER).
-November 2015: Yizhou Qian and Jim Lehman presented a poster on misconceptions in computer science and efforts of the project to help teachers address students' misconceptions at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) annual conference in Indianapolis, IN.
+==== Project Updates ====
-November 2015: Phil Sands and Debbie Hagen presented two sessions at the Indiana Business Educators Association conference in Indianapolis, IN. The first session was designed for new computer science teachers and discussed content, pedagogy and course design. The second session focused on teaching sorting and search algorithms for the AP Computer Science A course.
+Dr. Aman Yadav, Dr. Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera, Debbie Hagen and Phil Sands participated in a CS Teacher Workshop at Purdue. Teachers from across Indiana and the greater Chicago area spent three days working on issues related to computational thinking and the big ideas in the CS Principle curriculum.
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-July 2015: Aman Yadav and Phil Sands attend the CSTA meeting in Texas.  Debbie Hagen, Aman Yadav, and Phil Sands continue visiting PLTW Core Training sessions in Dayton, Ohio, Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Terre Haute, Indiana.  Over 40 teachers visited and will be participating in the PD4CS project.
+The PD4CS team and advisory board met at Michigan State University.
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-June 2015: Tim Korb welcomes high school CSE teachers to the PD4CS project at PLTW Core Training sessions in Kokomo and Urbana-Champaign.
+Tim Korb welcomes teachers to the PD4CS project at PLTW Core Training sessions in Kokomo.
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-May 2015: The Purdue project team travels to East Lansing to join the Michigan State team in a planning retreat.  Advisory Board members and PLTW staff participate via Skype.
+The PD4CS team
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