Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Get Started Teaching Computing in Primary Schools: Preparing to teach 5 - 11 year olds
Raspberry Pi Foundation and National Centre for Computing Education
Learners explored the role of computing in society and why it is important that we teach it to primary school pupils. Using the NCCE Teach Computing Curriculum, they developed their subject knowledge and considered how they could adapt a lesson to suit their particular setting.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Sue Sentance
Chief Learning Officer
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the reasons for teaching computing to pupils of primary school age (ages 5 to 11)
- Explain the contents of key curriculum strands within computing
- Modify a computing lesson to include differentiation and assessment, and make it inclusive for all of your learners
- Produce a personal action plan to inform your next steps in learning
Syllabus
Week 1
- What is a computer?
- Why teach computing?
- Computing in the curriculum
Week 2
- Computing systems and networks
- Programming
- Data and information
Week 3
- Creating media
- Safety and security
- Effective use of tools
- Impact of technology
- Cross-curricular computing
Week 4
- Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)
- Differentiation
- Inclusion
- Assessment
- Personal reflection
Issued on 19th June 2022
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