Teaching GCSE computer science: improving student engagement - remote CH447 / I02
Summary
Who is it for?
This course is for secondary teachers of GCSE Computer Science. This course is fully funded for participants from maintained schools in England who have successfully completed the GCSE Computer Science Accelerator programme.
What topics are covered?
- 01 | Encouraging girls into computer science – explore the issues surrounding the uptake of GCSE Computer Science by girls and the strategies that can be adopted to increase recruitment at Key Stage 4.
- 02 | Enriching the GCSE curriculum – develop an awareness of how to enrich your computing curriculum to engage a wide variety of students. During this session, you’ll have the opportunity to explore a variety of enrichment activities, followed by creating a personalised action plan, to incorporate these enrichment activities within your teaching.
- 03 | Effective homework strategies – explore how digital technologies can be used to support homework and how these can be embedded within your teaching practice.
- 04 | Hands-on learning – explore a wide variety of hands-on learning activities that can be used in the classroom, to help engage computer science students. Covering topics from areas across the curriculum, you’ll have the opportunity to practice using these readily available activities, before being able to embed them within your lesson planning.
How will you learn?
Scheduled live, interactive online sessions led by an experienced practitioner. Flexible facilitator-supported, participant-led tasks, involving deep exploration of the subject content.
The course will model teaching approaches that can be taken back to the classroom.
How long is this course?
This course is approximately five hours in duration, which may be split across several days.
This course is delivered as part of the National Centre for Computing Education.
Who is the course leader?
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Mandy Honeyman
My specialities are web development and edTech, though I also taught ICT/IT/CS and media studies at secondary. I have examined iGCSE and A-levels...
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Outcomes
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Layer excellent pedagogy on top of your subject knowledge, helping you support improved student outcomes
- Consider the many ways in which computer science teaching can be improved, and plan to overcome barriers to improvement
- Learn how to make your GCSE offer more accessible to a wider group of students, including how to attract more girls to the subject
- Understand how digital technologies can be embedded within your teaching practice to support homework strategies
- Explore ways to enrich your computing curriculum to maximise engagement from students including the use of hands-on learning activities.
Sessions
| Date | Time | |
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| 1 Teaching GCSE computer science: improving student engagement - remote | 31 January 2022 | 09:00-10:00 |
| 2 Teaching GCSE computer science: improving student engagement | 31 January 2022 | 10:00-10:45 |
| 3 Teaching GCSE computer science: improving student engagement - Remote | 31 January 2022 | 11:00-12:00 |
| 4 Teaching GCSE computer science: improving student engagement - remote | 31 January 2022 | 12:00-12:45 |
| 5 Teaching GCSE computer science: improving student engagement - remote | 31 January 2022 | 13:00-14:15 |
| 6 Teaching GCSE computer science: improving student engagement - remote | 31 January 2022 | 14:30-16:00 |
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Additional information
Our remote CPD courses for teachers are delivered across a series of sessions run at specific times and dates. Information on all course sessions can be found under the description of each course. To complete a course, all sessions are mandatory.
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