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FREE online course for industry: Teaching programming – for IT professionals who teach in school or at work ^JB

Teaching programming – for IT professionals who teach in school or at work

Four sponsors for this course: TechPathways London, Institute of Coding, Queen Mary University of London and supported by the Mayor of London

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[Download the information below as a PDF flyer to share, note corrected date below]

Note that this course is NOT aimed at teachers but is for IT / industry professionals.

What is this course about?
There is a growing body of computing education research on how to teach programming. This work is being shared with teachers but is rarely shared with IT professionals. Yet, IT professionals are often required to help others learn to program.

Teaching others to program can be through informal support for colleagues, or it can be more formal as part of induction, for placements or re-training. IT staff often volunteer in schools, in code clubs and in after school or weekend/ holiday groups to help students to learn to program.

Come and learn about theory and practice, including (amongst other things) general learning theories and specific programming techniques such as PCK, Bloom’s Taxonomy, SOLO, Semantic Waves, Code Reading, Levels of Abstraction, Code Reading, PRIMM, Code tracing, Unplugged Computing and of course Computational Thinking.

Visual summary of the list of 'summary of models' including PCK, Bloom's, Solo, Semantic Waves, Computational thinking, Levels of abstraction (LOA), Continuum of scaffolding, Use Modify Create, PRIMM, Code reading, Block model, Smelly Code, Data literacy model and Parsons and other techniques.

Image: Summary of models / general learning theories listed above

Who is this course for?
This course is for any IT professional who teaches programming to others. This might be as a volunteer in schools to young people in afterschool clubs, holiday clubs, or to support in class. Or IT professionals might teach programming in their work context, for example to new starters, industrial placements or colleagues.

How much will it cost?
NOTHING

When will it be? How long is the course?
● The course will be run over 4 sessions, every Wednesday for 4 weeks
● Each session is 90 minutes from 6pm to 7:30pm
● The first session is on Wednesday 25th November 2020
● The last session is on Wednesday the 16th December 2020

Where will the course be?
Online (via Zoom) here is the link to register for your free ticket for the 4 sessions
http://bit.ly/ITProf_Teaching_Prog_Course

Who will be delivering the course?
Queen Mary University of London. This course is part of the London GLA sponsored Tech Pathways programme.

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