Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In 2012, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced Microsoft's National Talent Strategy, calling for K-12 computer science education for American schoolchildren to address the “talent crisis.” [that] The following year, the technology-backed nonprofit Code.org sprung onto the scene to bring that education to schoolchildren, with Mr. Smith and executives from tech giants Google and Amazon joining its board (as well as Code.org). org too). The organization's donors, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, serve as his K-12 CS instructors).
Code.org combines funded individuals, universities, and other organizations with online, self-paced courses for a fee and its experts to “introduce CS to students in grades K-12.'' We are proud to have rapidly prepared more than 106,000 new teachers to teach. learning program. “No computer science experience is required,” he teases Code.org for prospective K-12 teachers (as does his Amazon Future Engineer partner at Code.org). Code.org hosted her K-12 CS Teacher Talent Expansion Workshop.
However, at least one state is allowing individuals to rebrand as K-12 CS teachers despite currently having a generous 10-year loophole for uncertified K-12 CS teachers. We are taking steps to complete this process in just one day. It is reported that “at the start of the 2024-2025 academic year” government tech“The New York State Department of Education (NYSED) is refining its qualification requirements for computer science teachers, but the state has yet to join the list of requiring computer science instruction for high school graduation,” according to the department’s website. Currently, starting September 1, 2024, educators who teach computer science will need a certificate in computer science or a certificate of continuing qualifications in computer science (SOCE) issued by the state board of regents. may be given to teachers without specific qualifications.I have a certificate but have been teaching computer science since September 1, 2017.
“According to the NYSED website, SOCE is a temporary measure and will be phased out after 10 years, at which point all computer science instructors will require a computer science certificate.”