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Teach Computing in Schools: Creating a Curriculum for Ages 11 to 16 (FutureLearn)

Offered by Raspberry Pi Foundation, National Centre for Computing Education,

Create an inspiring and engaging computing curriculum for secondary school students, using freely available resources. Learn how to create a successful computing curriculum tailored for your setting. On this course, teachers can discover how to create a computing curriculum for pupils aged 11 to 16, using freely available online resources to complement your existing materials.

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Explore how to use the Teach Computing Curriculum (TCC)
The TCC is a completely free resource, designed to help computing teachers plan lessons, homework, and assessments.
It contains everything educators need to teach computing and inspire pupils at key stages 1 to 4, with all of its content created by subject experts informed by the latest thinking.

Adapt the TCC for your computing curriculum
You’ll explore the underlying principles and pedagogical approaches used within the TCC, and understand how you can adapt it for use in your own setting.
As you learn how to integrate the TCC into your own curriculum to fill any gaps, you’ll discover how it can support you in your computing teaching.

Utilise the full range of teaching resources available to you
You’ll develop an assessment strategy that combines the TCC’s assessment materials with your school’s own system, identify how formative assessment can aid your pedagogy, and see how to modify resources to suit the needs of learners in your school.

Create a computing curriculum that suits you
Studying with computing experts at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, you’ll learn how to create a high-quality curriculum for your computing classes, in a way that fits your setting and with a minimal workload.

What topics will you cover?

Computing and its place in the Curriculum
Pedagogy
Adapting for your setting
Online learning platforms
Summative assessment
Putting it into practice

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Describe the importance of computing in secondary schools
Explain how the Teach Computing Curriculum can support you in your teaching
Evaluate how learning graphs are used as part of a progression model
Modify resources to include differentiation that suits the needs of learners in your school
Develop an assessment strategy combining the Teach Computing Curriculum assessment materials with your school’s own system
Modify your curriculum plans to integrate the Teach Computing Curriculum

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