CSU Alumnus First to Earn new Computer Science Teaching Endorsement
July 4, 2012 at 5:18 am 2 comments
One teacher down, 9,999 to go for CS10K! Seriously, this is a positive thing — Georgia has a CS endorsement (an add-on to an existing teaching certificate), and here’s the first person to earn it.
A LaGrange High School teacher for a decade, Mike Evans might not strike the casual observer as a pioneer.
But, thanks to Columbus State, a coincidence and his initiative, Evans has become Georgia’s first teacher with a computer science endorsement — meaning he now has special expertise to share with his many students who are curious about pursuing a career in computing.
via CSU Alumnus First to Earn new Computer Science Teaching Endorsement.
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Cecily | July 13, 2012 at 11:53 am
Is this realy the first person to get a CS endorsement in GA? I have had a CS endorsement for UT for years, and I truly doubt that I was the first to get one.
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Mark Guzdial | July 13, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Endorsements were just created in Georgia three years ago (through the efforts of Barb Ericson and others). It took awhile to define programs that could lead to an endorsement, and all the programs that have been created were started in CS departments, none from existing endorsement programs in Ed schools. Wayne Summer’s program at Columbus State was the first program in Georgia to be certified to lead to the endorsement.