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Teaching Computing via a School Placement

Faron Moller Orcid Logo, Stewart Powell

CEP '19: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice, Issue: 3, Pages: 1 - 4

Swansea University Authors: Faron Moller Orcid Logo, Stewart Powell

DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3294016.3294029

Abstract

Across Wales - as, but even more so than, elsewhere - there is a critical shortage of teachers who are qualified to teach Computer Science. This issue is particularly coming to the fore now due to on-going changes to the national school curriculum which is seeing a rigorous computer science curricul...

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Published in: CEP '19: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice
ISBN: 978-1-4503-6631-1/19/01
Published: Durham, UK CEP Computing Education Practice 2019
Online Access: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3294016.3294029
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa46121
Abstract: Across Wales - as, but even more so than, elsewhere - there is a critical shortage of teachers who are qualified to teach Computer Science. This issue is particularly coming to the fore now due to on-going changes to the national school curriculum which is seeing a rigorous computer science curriculum replacing the ICT curriculum which has been passed off as computing in most schools over the past several decades. In this paper we describe the efforts made by Technocamps to tackle this problem by encouraging computer science graduates to consider education as a viable career option. In particular, we outline a credit-bearing module which incorporates an extensive school placement. We discuss the challenges with setting up and running such a module as well as its effectiveness.
Keywords: Computer science education, School-university partnership, In-service teacher education, Professional development.
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 3
Start Page: 1
End Page: 4

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