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PSCSTA provides official Washington state clock hours for online, self-paced CSTA courses [Spring Session Apr 3 - Jun 11]

  • 1.  PSCSTA provides official Washington state clock hours for online, self-paced CSTA courses [Spring Session Apr 3 - Jun 11]

    Posted 03-04-2023 10:32 PM
    PSCSTA is providing official Washington state clock hours for the following online, self-paced CSTA courses [Spring Session] for its members: 
     
    Identity Inclusion for K-12 Computer Science Educators [Spring Session] | Computer Science Teachers Association (csteachers.org) [10 clock hours]

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    Teach Security: The Security Mindset [Spring Session] | Computer Science Teachers Association (csteachers.org) [4 STEM clock hours]

    The Spring session is from Apr 3 - Jun 11, 2023.    Cost is free to CSTA+ members.   While these courses are available to standard CSTA members for $40 (security) or $99 (identity), PSCSTA strongly suggests becoming a CSTA+ member ($50) first and then taking these courses for free.

    PSCSTA will also provide clock hours for future sessions of this course for the rest of this school year.   

    If you are interested in getting clock hours for either of these courses, please contact csta.pugetsound@gmail.com before starting work on the actual course so that we can look out for you. 


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    Lawrence Tanimoto
    Treasurer, CSTA Puget Sound (WA)
    Bellevue, WA
    K-12 Teacher (retired)
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  • 2.  RE: PSCSTA provides official Washington state clock hours for online, self-paced CSTA courses [Spring Session Apr 3 - Jun 11]

    Posted 03-08-2023 08:45 PM

    Thanks Lawrence and PSCSTA for this opportunity. I recently completed the self-paced course, Teaching Security: The Security Mindset, and really enjoyed the content and format of the class. The course incorporates lots of different methods to teach the content including interactive article readings that make use of Perusall (a very cool social reading tool) to peer interactions/evaluations of various activities related to threat modeling and cyber security. As a CSTA+ member this course was FREE and provided four STEM clock hours. Amazing! I look forward to future offerings. Thank you to all who made this possible.

    Sincerely,

    John Freyman | Business/Technology Department Chair
    Computer Science Teacher
    Bishop Blanchet High School 

    Seattle, WA 98103



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    John Freyman k12teacher
    Seattle WA
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