Teacher Training
Computer science in secondary schools
is an area of increasing interest and concern to educators
as well as to computer science professionals. Professionals agree about the need for
computer science courses for the secondary school curriculum. The second recommendation is for the
requirements for teacher certification in computer science. In 1983 the ACM Education Board
initiated efforts to formulate recommendations for secondary school computer science. Two task
forces, one for curriculum recommendations and the other for teacher certification
recommendations, were established under the Education Board's Elementary and Secondary Schools
Subcommittee. The work of the two task forces was also supported by the IEEE Computer Society
Educational Activities Board, and the final reports from the task forces were jointly approved
by the ACM and IEEE-CS boards in July 1984. Reports generated from these groups are
significant not only for the
important issues that they address, but also because they represent a joint activity between
ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. The work of the two task forces is summarized in reports
available as the publication Computer Science in Secondary Schools