Curriculum

What practical steps can you take in order to be up and running in September?

A business planning approach by ICT leaders in school could help.

I was involved in a conference about preparing for the new computing curriculum recently and one of the delegates asked me:

Designed for use in second through fifth grades,LEGO Education StoryStarter is a handsonlearning tool that enhances students’reading, writing, speaking, and listeningskills.

I think this is great fun, and it started me thinking: would it be possible to devise a teaching resource about coding, say, which the pupils couldn’t access until they had learnt a bit of coding?

What if you created a highly localised scheme of work?

Having the pupils work in small groups on finding and evaluating resources to use in a computing scheme of work could be quite useful.

I believe a lot of people are worried by the forthcoming Computing Programme of Study, judging by the number of people I’ve spoken to who say they have not yet begun to think about it.

It’s also a bit overwhelming if you’re not sure where to start in the first place.