Chapter 7: Culturally Responsive Methods for Engaging All Students in Computer Science Principles

This chapter discusses insights from the implementation of a week-long professional development experience for prospective computer science teachers. The professional development experience was framed by a culturally responsive pedagogical perspective. We present findings of ways prospective computer science teachers perceived culturally responsive pedagogy and their implementation of culturally responsive computer science during the ensuing academic year. Findings indicated that this cohort of teachers’ perceptions and implementations of culturally responsive computing included three facets: belief in students’ academic potential, affirming student realities, and critical self-reflexivity.