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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Programming Pedagogy in Primary Schools: Developing Computing Teaching
Raspberry Pi Foundation and National Centre for Computing Education
This course covered a range of pedagogical approaches, and the content knowledge required for teaching programming to primary school pupils. Learners had the opportunity to take part in activities demonstrating these approaches, before applying them to example lessons and their own planning.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Sue Sentance
Chief Learning Officer
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe a range of pedagogical approaches, including unplugged approaches, 'Use-Modify-Create', and Parson's Problems
- Investigate the key programming concepts of sequence, variables, selection, and iteration, and how these can be taught
- Model a learning sequence as a semantic wave
- Apply different pedagogies into a lesson plan
- Evaluate the use of these pedagogical approaches in your classroom
Syllabus
- Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- Bloom’s taxonomy and SOLO
- Semantic Waves
- Instructivist and constructivist learning theories
- Continuum of scaffolding
- Levels of abstraction
- Programming concepts: sequence, repetition, variables & selection.
- Using guided exploration and targeted tasks
- Teaching programming using “Use, Modify, Create”
Issued on 22nd November 2021
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