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5178425-805815ITE Secondary Computer ScienceCourse Tutor: David WellsDear Student Teacher?May I take this opportunity to welcome you on to your programme and I hope you are looking forward to embarking on your new career as a secondary school computing teacher. If you wish to contact me with any pre-course questions you may have, then please email d.wells@uel.ac.uk.Before September, you will wish to familiarise yourself with the below and start to appreciate the new Computing National Curriculum: well as reading through some GCSE and A Level specifications for Computing/ Computer Science/ ICT based courses - familiarise yourself with existing computer science qualifications - the below links to exam board websites may get you started:EdExcel: HYPERLINK "" : : : : would also be wise to start reading in preparation for September. I will provide access to plenty of reading and viewable resources as the programme progresses but these books?will get you started and thinking about Computing and ICT learning and teaching - I am not suggesting you buy all of these books - think libraries and other means to get a copy to read. When you receive your Teaching and Learning guide for the course, there will be more books identified that you may wish to engage with and use.Anderson K (2010) Getting the Buggers Excited About ICT, Continuum Publishing, ISBN-10: 1441198555?Kennewell S, (2004) Meeting the Standards in Using ICT for Secondary Teaching Routledge Falmer ISBN: 0415249872?- (Be aware that the national curriculum standards discussed in this book are out of date)?Kennewell S, (2007) A Practical guide to Teaching ICT in the Secondary School, Routledge, ISBN-10: 0415402999?Simmons C and Hawkins C, (2009) Teaching ICT (Developing as a Reflective teacher) Sage publications ISBN-10: 1847872549?Simmons C and Hawkins C, (2014) Teaching Computing (Developing as a Reflective teacher) Sage publications ISBN-13: 978-1446282526Woollard J, (2007) Learning and Teaching Using ICT – Achieving QTS in Secondary Schools Learning Matters ISBN-10: 1844450783Plus these two highly influential reports regarding ICT to Computing need for change:911225189230BCS (2012)?Shut down or restart? The way forward for computing in UK schools. Online:? I and Hope A, (2011) Next Gen. Transforming the UK into the world’s leading talent hub for the video games and visual effects industries. Online: would also?consider GCSE and A Level text books to familiarise yourself with Computer Science/ Computing/ ICT course content. These books will help you start to pinpoint your initial subject knowledge development needs.You may also wish to?view the following websites to help get you started and thinking about the subject you will be teaching: you have an Apple device iTunes U is also useful for computer science reading - I would definitely engage with the "BCS Computing Education" subscription in their library as a starting point - it's free!All students will be expected on the course to update their computer science knowledge and by able to describe and show they are able to teach computer science topics effectively.??The?books and websites above are the beginnings of your journey towards becoming a very accomplished practitioner with a good theoretical understanding of pedagogy.Pre Course Activity 1:Please engage with the new Computing National Curriculum programme of study, Computing/ Computer Science GCSE specifications (easily found via websites for OCR, AQA, EdExcel and WJEC exam board websites – see above links) and GCSE Computer Science resource books.Use these documents/ books to audit what areas of computing you are (a) very strong at (b) adequate or (c) need to develop.You can present this anyway you feel appropriate but I would suggest the more detail you can provide the better starting point you will have. For areas identified as needing development please present via your audit how you are developing/ planning to develop them.Pre Course Activity 2:“With reference to relevant reading and research, critically justify the place of computer science in a child’s learning and a school’s curriculum provision.”Approximate 1000 word count with appropriate reference list.1064079341630This will require engaging with relevant literature and start to think of your beginning identity as a teacher of computing. It will also get you used to writing again – the PGCE requires three assignments to be written and passed. Pre Course Activity 3:Develop a brief computer science curriculum for Year 7 pupils.You are to assume that the curriculum time has been allocated as a one hour a week lesson for 39 weeks, spread over 6 half terms.Put together a draft computer science curriculum proposal/ plan overview for what you will teach and expect pupils to learn. Keep it limited to topics that are suggested in the draft Dfe Computing curriculum.Present as a brief scheme of work.I very much look forward to?working with you in September.?DaveDavid Wells FHEASenior Lecturer, Secondary ITECass School of Education and CommunitiesUniversity of East LondonStratford CampusWater LaneLondon E15 4LZTel: 020 8223 4686Mail: d.wells@uel.ac.ukPlease access our "Research in Teacher Education" Journal at uel.ac.uk/rite/12164793091906 ................
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