2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
A Working Model for Teacher Training in Computing through the Literacy from Scratch Project
verfasst von : Lawrence Williams, Miroslava Černochová, G. Barbara Demo, Sarah Younie
Erschienen in: Key Competencies in ICT and Informatics. Implications and Issues for Educational Professionals and Management
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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From September 2014, classroom teachers in the United Kingdom are required to move away from teaching ICT, towards new Programmes of Study in Computing, including computer programming. This chapter presents a developing international working model for teacher training, designed to support this major change in focus. Conceived at Brunel University, west London, ideas for the development of computer coding in the classroom were swiftly shared with colleagues at Charles University in Prague, at the University of Torino, Italy, and with De Montfort University, UK. Based on the MIT Scratch program, teacher trainers and classroom pupils are introduced to elementary block-coding, through a highly creative cross-curricular teaching and learning project called “Literacy from Scratch”. This centres on the cross-curricular production of animated narratives, together with the pupils’ own art work, for Sprites and Backgrounds. The project has successfully engaged pupils in computer coding from the ages of 5 through to 14 in the UK, and to 16 in Italy.