@inproceedings{10.1145/3476883.3520219,
  author = {Jerkins, James A. and Rawajfih, Yasmeen and Stenger, Cynthia L.},
  title = {Exploring the Impact of CS Makers on Teachers in Alabama},
  year = {2022},
  isbn = {9781450386975},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3476883.3520219},
  doi = {10.1145/3476883.3520219},
  abstract = {As K-12 schools incorporate computer science, one of the challenges they face is preparing teachers to teach their first CS course. Survey responses were collected from teachers each day of a week long professional development, and then at a follow up session near the end of their first semester of implementation. In this paper we discuss teacher responses from their implementation of CS Makers in their middle school classrooms. The professional development sessions used a curriculum developed in our NSF INCLUDES supported CS Makers course with micro:bit hardware. We found that most of the teachers were out of their fields, many were told to teach the class, rather than requesting it, and all had positive results with students.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Southeast Conference},
  pages = {201--205},
  numpages = {5},
  keywords = {K-12 education, making, CS education},
  location = {Virtual Event},
  series = {ACM SE '22}
}