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Dr Sarah Drummond

Dr Sarah Drummond. Teaching Fellow Admissions Tutor for Computer Science Director of Undergraduate Studies. Some of the challenges in delivering the new curriculum. Quick implementation of the computing curriculum Training needs of existing teachers – funding and time issues

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Dr Sarah Drummond

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  1. Dr Sarah Drummond Teaching Fellow Admissions Tutor for Computer Science Director of Undergraduate Studies

  2. Some of the challenges in delivering the new curriculum • Quick implementation of the computing curriculum • Training needs of existing teachers – funding and time issues • Current lack of ‘Computing teachers’ • …………..

  3. The national curriculum for computing aims to ensure that all pupils: • can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation • can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems • can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems • are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology Dept of Education Sept 2013

  4. Outcomes of this conference • Practical ideas on keeping pupils interest through practical exercises • Hardware architecture • Practical experience at programming including working with and discussion on the uses of the Raspberry Pi • An expanded view of what Computer Science is as a discipline • Problem solving; programming; applications; software engineering; current research topics • Computational thinking – ‘a systematic and deep approach to thinking about complex problems’ • Networking with fellow teachers; Support available e.g. British Computer Society(BCS) Computing at Schools (CAS) initiative

  5. Group Activity • Issues to consider as a group (15 mins): • Other challenges you face implementing the new curriculum • Discuss the areas you will need to teach and your confidence level (try using a mind map) • Based on the known schedule for this conference is there any topic in particular that is missing that you would like some advice on. If possible we can run a few short break-out sessions on Tuesday morning • What would you like to get out of this conference?

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