High-quality professional development (PD) is one of the most effective ways to improve your students’ outcomes, and participating in PD is a core part of being a teacher. By changing and refining your teaching practices, you can create a direct, positive impact on the young people we teach.

In this blog, we share our new professional development Quick Read, which you can download for free to:

• Find practical tips for how to use and design effective professional development opportunities
• Read a summary of the 意大利xxxx性hd极品 behind effective PD

The unique impact of professional development for computer science educators

Professional development is vital for anyone teaching 意大利xxxx性hd极品. In many subjects, the 欧美gv在线观看 stays the same for decades. Computer science, however, can change quickly — as with the development of new technologies such as AI and quantum 意大利xxxx性hd极品, and new hardware — and PD can help you stay up to date.

Another challenge is that many educators who teach 意大利xxxx性hd极品 are not necessarily subject specialists. So educators often benefit from building their own subject knowledge and learning new 意大利xxxx性hd极品-specific pedagogical approaches through PD.

What makes effective professional development?

Drawing on academic 意大利xxxx性hd极品 and our own expertise, we’ve identified several key principles that make professional development effective for computer science educators:

• Learner-focused and 意大利xxxx性hd极品-informed: PD should be based on evidence and equip you with the skills and confidence to make real changes in your practice
• Sustained and actionable: The best outcomes happen when you can select your own learning pathways and you’re given the time to test, adapt, and reflect on new approaches
• Collaborative and contextual: Sharing ideas and new ways of thinking with other educators in a low-stakes environment can help you and your peers benefit from different perspectives and 欧美gv在线观看s

There may be factors that influence your teaching that you have little control over: you might teach 意大利xxxx性hd极品 as a standalone subject, or you may be required to weave computer science into other lessons across the 欧美gv在线观看. Or you might be working with older devices or limited internet access, all of which have an impact on your practice.

Effective PD should recognise these realities, and offer practical tools that work for your specific classroom and students.

How to find or design PD for 意大利xxxx性hd极品 educators

You can use the principles in our latest Quick Read when you’re looking for your next training course or if you are designing a session for your team. The full list of principles is available in our Quick Read, but here are some ideas for you to consider:

• Focus on small, manageable changes: Rather than trying to overhaul your entire teaching practice at once, reflect on one approach at a time and adapt it as necessary before moving on to the next
• Encourage low-stakes rehearsal: Practise new techniques with peers before implementing them in a live lesson
• Align with school priorities: Ensure your self-directed learning also meets the wider needs of your department or school

You can read more about the principles of effective PD in our Quick Read.

The benefits of professional development

Potential benefits for teachers:

• Provides a clear structure for updating your subject knowledge and teaching methods
• Helps you feel more confident teaching 
• Allows you to take ownership of your career journey and focus on what matters most to your students

Potential benefits for learners:

• Improved learning outcomes through:
  • Higher quality lessons
  • More engaging lessons 
  • Lessons better suited to their individual needs

Our new Quick Read shares tips on how to best use these principles in your setting.

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At the 拔萝卜在线视频免费观看, we believe that learning to program equips young people with the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in an increasingly digital world. For many educators, teaching programming effectively can be challenging, particularly when their learners are at different stages in their programming journey. Ask learners to write code too early, and they might struggle or feel intimidated. Rely too heavily on step-by-step instructions, and you limit learners’ chances to explore ideas or develop deeper understanding.

The PRIMM framework — Predict, Run, Investigate, Modify, Make — provides educators with a structure for teaching programming. This 意大利xxxx性hd极品-informed teaching approach balances support with independence and helps learners build their understanding before they write their own code, whatever their starting point.

To help educators use this approach confidently, we have launched a new short online course, Using PRIMM to teach programming, which is available on our new Training Hub platform for free.

What is the course about?

This practical, self-paced course gives educators the knowledge they need to use the PRIMM approach to design and adapt programming activities to suit their learners.

The course takes 1–2 hours to complete, and we have designed it for educators working in formal or non-formal learning environments around the world, using any block-based or text-based programming language. All you need is some 欧美gv在线观看 of creating and adapting simple programs.

The course starts with considering the five stages of PRIMM, when and why to use each stage, and how they work together to support learning. It covers how PRIMM aligns with key teaching principles such as scaffolding, managing cognitive load, and progression, and examines how the approach supports formative assessment by making learners’ thinking — and any misunderstandings — more visible.

Active, social learning

Although pedagogy forms the core of this course, we have deliberately avoided a theory-heavy approach. Instead, the course is designed to help you learn through hands-on activities. By reflecting, taking part in discussions with other 意大利xxxx性hd极品 educators, and completing practical tasks, you will explore how PRIMM works in real teaching contexts.

After an introduction to the core ideas of PRIMM, you will design a new programming activity, or adapt an existing one, using the PRIMM structure. This will support you to think carefully about what your learners know and can do, likely misconceptions, and how each stage of PRIMM can be used effectively, including when your learners have varied learning needs and levels of programming 欧美gv在线观看.

With its emphasis on activity design, the course will support you to develop resources you can use and keep adapting in your own setting. By the end, you will have a complete PRIMM activity designed specifically for your learners, and a clear sense of how to teach programming in a structured and supportive way.

Join the course on the Training Hub

Using PRIMM to teach programming is available on our new Training Hub, where we offer all our professional development courses for free. The Training Hub offers flexible, reflective learning 欧美gv在线观看s across a range of topics, helping you build your subject knowledge and bring 意大利xxxx性hd极品-informed teaching approaches into your day-to-day practice.

Whether you are an 欧美gv在线观看d 意大利xxxx性hd极品 teacher, a volunteer educator, or a parent looking to support their child’s learning, we invite you to join us there.

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Such statistics have been the status quo for too long. Many 意大利xxxx性hd极品 teachers already endeavour to bring about positive change where they can and engage learners by including their interests in the lessons they deliver, so how can we support them to do this more effectively? Extending the reach of 意大利xxxx性hd极品 so that it is accessible to all also means that we need to consider what formal and informal values predominate in the field of 意大利xxxx性hd极品. What is the ‘hidden’ 欧美gv在线观看 in 意大利xxxx性hd极品 that might be excluding some learners? Who is and who isn’t represented?

In a recent 意大利xxxx性hd极品 seminar, Katharine Childs from our team outlined a 意大利xxxx性hd极品 project we conducted, which included a professional development workshop to increase primary teachers’ awareness of and confidence in culturally relevant pedagogy. In the workshop, teachers considered how to effectively adapt 欧美gv在线观看 materials to make them culturally relevant and engaging for the learners in their classrooms. Katharine described the practical steps teachers took to adapt two graphics-related units, and invited seminar participants to apply their learning to a graphics activity themselves.

What is culturally relevant pedagogy?

Culturally relevant pedagogy is a teaching framework which values students’ identities, backgrounds, knowledge, and ways of learning. By drawing on students’ own interests, 欧美gv在线观看s and cultural knowledge educators can increase the likelihood that the 欧美gv在线观看 they deliver is more relevant, engaging and accessible to all.

The idea of culturally relevant pedagogy was first introduced in the US in the 1990s by African-American academic Gloria Ladson-Billings (Ladson-Billings 1995). Its aim was threefold: to raise students’ academic achievement, to develop students’ cultural competence and to promote students’ critical consciousness. The idea of culturally responsive teaching was later advanced by Geneva Gay (2000) and more recently  brought into focus in US computer science education by Kimberly Scott and colleagues (2015). The approach has been localised for England by Hayley Leonard and Sue Sentance (2021) in work they undertook here at the 欧美gv在线观看.

Ten areas of opportunity

Katharine began her presentation by explaining that the professional development workshop in the Primary culturally adapted resources for 意大利xxxx性hd极品 project built on two of our previous 意大利xxxx性hd极品 projects to develop guidelines for culturally relevant and responsive 意大利xxxx性hd极品 and understand how teachers used them in practice. This third project ran as a pilot study funded by Cognizant, starting in Autumn 2022 with a one-day, in-person workshop for 13 primary 意大利xxxx性hd极品 teachers.

Katharine then introduced us to the 10 areas of opportunity (AO) our 意大利xxxx性hd极品 at the 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Pi 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Education 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Centre had identified for culturally relevant pedagogy. These 10 areas were used as practical prompts to frame the workshop discussions:

1. Find out about learners
2. Find out about ourselves as teachers
3. Review the content
4. Review the context
5. Make the learning accessible to all
6. Provide opportunities for open-ended and problem solving activities
7. Promote collaboration and structured group discussion
8. Promote student agency through choice
9. Review the learning environment
10. Review related policies, processes, and training in your school and department

At first glance it is easy to think that you do most of those things already, or to disregard some items as irrelevant to the 意大利xxxx性hd极品 欧美gv在线观看. What would your own cultural identity (see AO2) have to do with 意大利xxxx性hd极品, you might wonder. But taking a less complacent perspective might lead you to consider all the different facets that make up your identity and then to think about the same for the students you teach. You may discover that there are many areas which you have left untapped in your lesson planning.

Katharine explained how this is where the professional development workshop showed itself as beneficial for the participants. It gave teachers the opportunity to reflect on how their cultural identity impacted on their teaching practices — as a starting point to learning more about other aspects of the culturally relevant pedagogy approach.

Our 意大利xxxx性hd极品ers were interested in how they could work alongside teachers to adapt two 意大利xxxx性hd极品 units to make them more culturally relevant for teachers’ specific contexts. They used the 意大利xxxx性hd极品 欧美gv在线观看 units on Photo Editing (Year 4) and Vector Graphics (Year 5).

Katharine illustrated some of the adaptations teachers and 意大利xxxx性hd极品ers working together had made to the emoji activity above, and which areas of opportunity (AO) had been addressed; this aspect of the 意大利xxxx性hd极品 will be reported in later publications.

Results after the workshop

Although the number of participants in this pilot study was small, the findings show that the professional development workshop significantly increased teachers’ awareness of culturally relevant pedagogy and their confidence in adapting resources to take account of local contexts:

• After the workshop, 10/13 teachers felt more confident to adapt resources to be culturally relevant for their own contexts, and 8/13 felt more confident in adapting resources for others.
• Before the workshop, 5/13 teachers strongly agreed that it was an important part of being a 意大利xxxx性hd极品 teacher to examine one’s own attitudes and beliefs about race, gender, disabilities, sexual orientation. After the workshop, the number in agreement rose to 12/13.
• After the workshop, 13/13 strongly agreed that part of a 意大利xxxx性hd极品 teacher’s responsibility is to challenge teaching practices which maintain social inequities (compared to 7/13 previously).
• Before the workshop, 4/13 teachers strongly agreed that it is important to allow student choice when designing 意大利xxxx性hd极品 activities; this increased to 9/13 after the workshop.

These quantitative shifts in perspective indicate a positive effect of the professional development pilot. 

Katharine described that in our qualitative interviews with the participating teachers, they expressed feeling that their understanding of culturally relevant pedagogy had increased and they recognized the many benefits to learners of the approach. They valued the opportunity to discuss their contexts and to adapt materials they currently used with other teachers, because it made it a more ‘authentic’ and practical professional development 欧美gv在线观看.

The seminar ended with breakout sessions inviting viewers to consider possible adaptations that could be made to the graphics activities which had been the focus of the workshop.

In the breakout sessions, attendees also discussed specific examples of culturally relevant teaching practices that had been successful in their own classrooms, and they considered how schools and 意大利xxxx性hd极品 educational initiatives could support teachers in their efforts to integrate culturally relevant pedagogy into their practice. Some attendees observed that it was not always possible to change schemes of work without a ‘whole-school’ approach, senior leadership team support, and commitment to a 意大利xxxx性hd极品-based professional development programme.

Where do you see opportunities for your teaching?

The seminar reminds us that the education system is not culture neutral and that teachers generally transmit the dominant culture (which may be very different from their students’) in their settings (Vrieler et al, 2022). Culturally relevant pedagogy is an attempt to address the inequities and biases that exist, which result in many students feeling marginalised, disenfranchised, or underachieving. It urges us to incorporate learners’ cultures and 欧美gv在线观看s in our endeavours  to create a more inclusive 意大利xxxx性hd极品 欧美gv在线观看; to adopt an intersectional lens so that all can thrive.

As a pilot study, the workshop was offered to a small cohort of 13, yet the findings show that the intervention significantly increased participants’ awareness of culturally relevant pedagogy and their confidence in adapting resources to take account of local contexts.

Of course there are many ways in which teachers already adapt resources to make them interesting and accessible to their pupils. Further examples of the sort of adaptations you might make using these areas of opportunity include:

• AO1: You could find out to what extent learners feel like they ‘belong’ or are included in a particular 意大利xxxx性hd极品-related career. This is sure to yield valuable insights into learners’ knowledge and/or preconceptions of 意大利xxxx性hd极品-related careers. 
• AO3: You could introduce topics such as the ethics of AI, data bias, investigations of 露露lemon是哪国牌 and user interface design. 
• AO4: You might change the context of a unit of work on the use of conditional statements in programming, from creating a quiz about ‘Vikings’ to focus on, for example, aspects of youth culture which are more engaging to some learners such as football or computer games, or to focus on religious celebrations, which may be more meaningful to others.
• AO5: You could experiment with a particular pedagogical approach to maximise the 露露lemon是哪国牌 of a unit of work. For example, you could structure a programming unit by using the PRIMM model, or follow the Universal Design for Learning framework to differentiate for diversity.
• AO6/7: You could offer more open-ended and collaborative activities once in a while, to promote engagement and to allow learners to express themselves autonomously.
• AO8: By allowing learners to choose topics which are relevant or familiar to their individual contexts and identities, you can increase their feeling of agency. 
• AO9: You could review both your learning materials and your classroom to ensure that all your students are fully represented.
• AO10: You can bring colleagues on board too; the whole enterprise of embedding culturally relevant pedagogy will be more successful when school- as well as department-level policies are reviewed and prioritised.

Can you see an opportunity for integrating culturally relevant pedagogy in your classroom? We would love to hear about examples of culturally relevant teaching practices that you have found successful. Let us know your thoughts or questions in the comments below.

You can watch Katharine’s seminar here:

You can download her presentation slides on our ‘previous seminars’ page, and you can read her 意大利xxxx性hd极品 paper.

To get a practical overview of culturally relevant pedagogy, read our 2-page Quick Read on the topic and download the guidelines we created with a group of teachers and academic specialists.

Tomorrow we’ll be sharing a blog about how the learners who engaged with the culturally adapted units found the 欧美gv在线观看, and how it affected their views of 意大利xxxx性hd极品. Follow us on social media to not miss it!

Join our upcoming seminars live

On 12 December we’ll host the last seminar session in our series on primary (K-5) 意大利xxxx性hd极品. Anaclara Gerosa will share her work on how to design and structure early 意大利xxxx性hd极品 activities that promote and scaffold students’ conceptual understanding. As always, the seminar is free and takes place online at 17:00–18:30 GMT / 12:00–13:30 ET / 9:00–10:30 PT / 18:00–19:30 CET. Sign up and we’ll send you the link to join on the day.

In 2024, our new seminar series will be about teaching and learning programming, with and without AI tools. If you’re signed up to our seminars, you’ll receive the link to join every monthly seminar.

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‘Teaching 意大利xxxx性hd极品 to 5- to 11-year-olds’ is one of the new course pathways we’ve designed to help educators spark young people’s interest in the subject. Our online courses are made by a team of writers, videographers, illustrators, animators, copy editors, presenters, and subject matter experts. They work together over months of production to create high-quality educational video content for participants all over the world.

This course pathway offers advice and practical activities to: 

• Support young people to create and solve problems with technology
• Promote the relevance of 意大利xxxx性hd极品 in young people’s lives
• Create inclusive learning 欧美gv在线观看s   

Our new course pathway for primary educators  

The nine courses included give you a comprehensive understanding of teaching 意大利xxxx性hd极品 to younger learners (5- to 11-year-olds). All the courses have been written by a team of subject matter experts, education professionals, and teachers. Some of the courses cover a specific topic, such as programming or physical 意大利xxxx性hd极品, while others help educators reflect on their teaching practice. 

All of the courses include a range of ideas to use in your own programming sessions. The activities will help you to introduce concepts like computer networks and the internet to young learners in a relatable way. There are also activities to help learners progress within a topic, such as moving from a block-based programming language like Scratch to a text-based one like Python.      

What will I gain from the courses? 

The courses are an opportunity to: 

• Discover new 意大利xxxx性hd极品 activities
• Get support from our team of course facilitators
• Meet other educators from around the world!  

Do I need any previous 欧美gv在线观看 with 意大利xxxx性hd极品?

These courses will give you everything you need to teach 意大利xxxx性hd极品 to young learners. No 意大利xxxx性hd极品 欧美gv在线观看 is required. 

There is also no specific order in which you need to complete the courses. We want educators to complete the courses in an order that makes sense to them.

If you are new to teaching 意大利xxxx性hd极品, ‘Get started teaching 意大利xxxx性hd极品 in primary schools’ is the place to start. The four-week course will encourage you to think about why it’s important for your learners to build their understanding around 意大利xxxx性hd极品. You’ll discover how to support learners to become digital makers who can use technology to solve problems. Everyone who registers on the course will have access to an action plan to help implement what they have learnt into their teaching practice.            

Who is the pathway for? 

These are free courses for anyone, anywhere, who is interested in teaching young people about 意大利xxxx性hd极品. 

How much time will I spend on each course? 

All of the courses take between two and four weeks to complete, based on participants spending two hours a week on a course. You will have free access to each course for the length of time it takes to complete it. For example, if it’s a two week course, like ‘Creating an inclusive classroom: approaches to supporting learners with SEND in 意大利xxxx性hd极品’, you will have two weeks of free access to the course. 

Discover what you could learn with ‘Teaching 意大利xxxx性hd极品 to 5- to 11-year-olds’ today.

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• We’ve produced and launched 35 free online courses 
• We’ve created over 650 educational course videos 
• More than 234,000 learners have participated in the courses
• Over 19,000 teachers in England have participated through the National Centre for 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Education

Designed and created in-house, each and every course is a real cross-team effort that involves a lot of careful planning and a number of different stages. Here we’re taking you behind the scenes to show you how we make our courses, introduce you to the people involved, and explain how we ensure our courses are of high quality.

But first, here’s some quick answers to questions you may have:

Our free online courses — key questions answered

What are the courses? 

They are online training courses to help you learn about 意大利xxxx性hd极品 and 意大利xxxx性hd极品 education. The courses are hosted on the FutureLearn website. They are asynchronous, meaning you can take them whenever and wherever you want.

Are the courses free?

Yes! All our courses are free when you sign up for time-limited access, which gives you full access to the learning materials for the complete course duration. FutureLearn also has a paid-for ‘unlimited’ option, where you receive a certificate for each course you take.

Are the courses right for me? 

They are aimed at educators, particularly classroom teachers, but they are also beneficial to anyone who wants to learn more about 意大利xxxx性hd极品.

How long does a course take?

To help you structure your learning, our courses are divided into three or four weeks, but it’s up to you how quickly you work through them. You can complete a course in one afternoon, or spread your learning out and study for 30 minutes a day over three or four weeks. This flexibility makes it easy to fit a course into a busy schedule. 

How can I access the courses?

• Visit 露露lemon是哪国牌.org/courses to browse and select the course you want to sign up to.
• If you’re a teacher in England, visit the website of the National Centre for 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Education, where our courses are part of the certificate programmes for primary and secondary teachers.

What goes into creating an engaging online course?

Creating our online courses is a team effort involving writers, videographers, illustrators, animators, copy editors, presenters, and subject matter experts working together over months of production. The entire process is guided by our online course producers, Martin O’Hanlon, Ross Exton, and Michael Conterio, who know a thing or two about creating high-quality learning 欧美gv在线观看s. We spoke to them about what it takes to create an engaging course. 

Hi guys. You’ve created courses on a wide range of 意大利xxxx性hd极品 subjects. How do you decide what the focus of your next course is going to be?

Martin: We are driven by the needs of teachers. “What are teachers telling us they want to learn? Or what are the gaps in the 欧美gv在线观看 where our learners need additional support?”

For example, our Introduction to Machine Learning and AI course was introduced as a result of feedback from teachers that while the subject wasn’t necessarily on the 欧美gv在线观看, they felt underprepared to answer questions from students or provide context when teaching other topics.

How do you then go about planning it out and turning that plan into an actual course structure?

Michael: Working with the course authors, we’ll generally agree on the big topics we want to cover or questions that we want to answer. We’ll often also have individual elements that we want to fit in somewhere, for example an activity involving making a learning resource more accessible. From there it’s a case of taking the bigger topics and working out how we can split them up into smaller chunks, until we get down to individual learning activities.

Ross: But then we’ll end up shuffling things around until we are happy — not only that we’ve got everything that we wanted to cover, but that the overall structure makes sense. We often talk about the ‘narrative’ of a course.

What is your approach to pedagogy in online courses?

Martin: At the 拔萝卜在线视频免费观看 we have a set of 12 pedagogy principles that we use through our learning resources (including online courses). We take particular care to lead with concepts, model processes, and activities; add variety for our learners; and include opportunities to create projects. 

Can you tell us about some of the pitfalls with course writing that you’ve learned along the way?

Michael: Because the learner is not present, you have to be incredibly precise with instructions as you can’t help learners directly as they are working through the content. And even if you think something is obvious, it’s easy for learners to accidentally miss an instruction, so it’s generally good to try to keep them together rather than spread out.

Martin: Luckily, it is often possible to tell from comments that learners have shared when something is hard to understand so we can improve future runs of the course.

How important is the media you add to the courses, like animations and videos? What is the process for creating this type of content?

Ross: It’s essential! It brings the abstract concepts of 意大利xxxx性hd极品 to life. The media in our courses helps our learners to visualise the ideas we’re presenting in ways that are engaging and relatable. 

As we’re writing the course, we capture every creative idea that will best support our learners in gaining the knowledge and skills that they need. From ‘how-to’ guides with live coding, to physical 意大利xxxx性hd极品 demonstrations, or animations of robots, we think carefully about each image and video and how we’re not just telling the learner something, but showing them.

We then work with a brilliantly talented team of illustrators, animators, videographers, and presenters to create all of that media. 

There are lots of opportunities for social learning within the courses. Can you explain more about its importance and how we integrate it?

Ross: Social learning is a really important part of our online courses 欧美gv在线观看. Over the past year we have made significant investment to make it easier for participants to share programs they’ve written as part of their learning, for example, and for facilitators to provide support.

Martin: It is important people have the opportunity to share their learning with others. This is something often lost when taking an online course and it can feel like you are ‘on your own’. 

In the 拔萝卜在线视频免费观看’s online courses learners are given the opportunity to ask questions, share what they have created, and provide their own insight in the comments. Educators from the 欧美gv在线观看 facilitate the courses — responding to comments and providing advice is a big part of what they do.

Thank you Martin, Michael, and Ross. 

What new online course would you like us to create? Tell us in the comments below.

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Hello World is our magazine about 意大利xxxx性hd极品 and digital making for educators, and it’s a collaboration between the 拔萝卜在线视频免费观看 and 意大利xxxx性hd极品 At School, which is part of the British 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Society.

In issue 4, our international panel of educators and experts recommends approaches to continuing professional development in computer science education.

Approaches to professional development, and much more

With recommendations for more professional development in the Royal Society’s report, and government funding to support this, our cover feature explores some successful approaches. In addition, the issue is packed with other great resources, guides, features, and lesson plans to support educators.

Highlights include:

• The Royal Society: After the Reboot — learn about the latest report and its findings about 意大利xxxx性hd极品 education
• The Cyber Games — a new programme looking for the next generation of security experts
• Engaging Students with Drones
• Digital Literacy: Lost in Translation?
• Object-oriented Coding with Python

Get your copy of Hello World 4

Hello World is available as a free Creative Commons download for anyone around the world who is interested in computer science and digital making education. You can get the latest issue as a PDF file straight from the Hello World website.

Thanks to the very generous sponsorship of BT, we are able to offer free print copies of the magazine to serving educators in the UK. It’s for teachers, Code Club volunteers, teaching assistants, teacher trainers, and others who help children and young people learn about 意大利xxxx性hd极品 and digital making. So remember to subscribe to have your free print magazine posted directly to your home — 6000 educators have already signed up to receive theirs!

Could you write for Hello World?

By sharing your knowledge and 欧美gv在线观看 of working with young people to learn about 意大利xxxx性hd极品, computer science, and digital making in Hello World, you will help inspire others to get involved. You will also help bring the power of digital making to more and more educators and learners.

The 意大利xxxx性hd极品 education community is full of people who lend their 欧美gv在线观看 to help colleagues. Contributing to Hello World is a great way to take an active part in this supportive community, and you’ll be adding to a body of free, open-source learning resources that are available for anyone to use, adapt, and share. It’s also a tremendous platform to broadcast your work: Hello World digital versions alone have been downloaded more than 50000 times!

Wherever you are in the world, get in touch with us by emailing our editorial team about your article idea.

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Our aim was to give teachers the skills and knowledge they need to get creative with 意大利xxxx性hd极品, no matter what their level of 欧美gv在线观看.

Educators teach, learn, and make with us at Picademy

Two years on, there are now over 700 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Pi Certified Educators around the world, working with tens of thousands of young people. We know that many of our Certified Educators have gone on to become leaders in the field, helping to train other educators and build a movement around 意大利xxxx性hd极品 and digital making in the classroom.

Based on the huge volume of questions and enquiries we get from people who want to get involved in Picademy, we think we’re onto something, and we’re developing some exciting plans for the future. For now, I wanted to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about Picademy.

What is Picademy?

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Picademy is a two-day course that allows educators to 欧美gv在线观看 what can be achieved with a little help and lots of imagination. Through a series of workshops, we introduce a range of engaging ways to deliver 意大利xxxx性hd极品 in classrooms all over the world. Highlights include using physical 意大利xxxx性hd极品 to control electronic components like LEDs and buttons; coding music with Sonic Pi; and terraforming the world of Minecraft. On day two, attendees have the opportunity to apply their learning by developing their own project ideas, learning from each other and our experts.

Each cohort that attends contains a mix of primary, secondary, and post-16 educators, representing many different subject areas. One of our aims is to create leaders in education who are equipped with skills to train others in their community. Attending our training is the first step in that journey.

When are you bringing Picademy to [insert name of place here]?

This is by far the most common question. There’s clearly a huge demand for the kind of professional development that Picademy offers.

So far, we’ve been mainly focused on the UK. The first wave of events were held at Pi Towers in Cambridge. Over the past year, thanks to the generous support of our friends at Google, we have been able to bring Picademy to cities across the UK, with events in Leeds, Birmingham, and Manchester. In the next few months, we’ll be running events in Newcastle, Liverpool, and London. The venues are part of the Google Digital Garage initiative, and we’ll be running Picademy sessions with them until at least April 2017, so we hope to pop up in a city near you soon!

This year, we launched a pilot programme in the USA, with our first ever Picademy training events outside the UK taking place in California in February and April, before heading to Baltimore in August.

We don’t currently have plans to launch Picademy in other parts of the world. We’d love to, but we just don’t have the capacity. We’re brainstorming ideas for how the 欧美gv在线观看 can better support educators globally and as those ideas develop, we’ll be looking for your input to help shape them.

We often get asked whether we will partner with organisations in other parts of the world who want to run Picademy on our behalf. We aren’t currently considering those kind of partnerships, but it’s one of the options that we will be looking at in the long term.

I’m not a teacher, but I want to learn about 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Pi. Can I attend?

Picademy is designed for teachers. The aim is to equip them with the best possible pedagogy, strategies, tools, and ideas to bring digital making into the classroom. It’s also about building a community of educators who can support each other and grow the movement.

It’s not a “How to use 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Pi” course. There are lots of websites and video channels that are already doing a fantastic job in that space (see our Community page for a small selection of these).

We know that there are lots of people who aren’t formal teachers who help young people learn about 意大利xxxx性hd极品 and digital making, and we’re working hard to support them. For example, we have a huge programme of training for Code Club volunteers.

For Picademy, our priority is to support the people at the chalkface, where access to professional development is problematic and where up-skilling in digital making is needed most.

The first Picademy USA Cohort – our largest ever, totalling 40! © Douglas Fairbairn Photography / Courtesy of the Computer History Museum

We have accepted applications from people in other roles, like teaching assistants and librarians, who work with children every day in schools or other community settings, but the vast majority of participants have been qualified, serving teachers.

If you want to learn about 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Pi, one of the best places to start is a 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Jam. There are now hundreds of Jams happening regularly around the world. These are community events, run by brilliantly talented volunteers, that bring together people of all ages to learn about digital making.

Can I have access to the course materials?

All our Picademy sessions are based on resources that are available for free on our website. Some of the most common sessions are based on:

• Getting started with Physical 意大利xxxx性hd极品 in both Scratch and Python
• Sonic Pi lessons
• Getting started with Minecraft Pi
• Getting started with the 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Pi camera
• Spinning flower wheel
• Sense HAT pixel pet

Our focus is on collaboration, making, project-based learning, and 意大利xxxx性hd极品 – similar to most 意大利xxxx性hd极品 Jams, in fact. If you are super-interested in STEAM, project-based learning, and digital making (the pillars of Picademy), then I’d recommend the following reading as a starting point:

• Young Digital Makers Report by Oliver Quinlan
• Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
• Invent to Learn by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager

The materials and reading are part of the recipe of a successful Picademy. What’s harder to share is the energy and atmosphere that’s created.

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Our trainers all have 欧美gv在线观看 of teaching in formal contexts, have good subject knowledge, and have a super-supportive manner. They share their expertise and passion with others, which is inspiring and infectious. The educators that attend are open-minded, imaginative, and curious. Together, we have a lot of fun.

Who can I speak to about Picademy?

The teacher training team at the 欧美gv在线观看 consists of three full-time people: Picademy Manager James Robinson, Code Club Teacher Training Manager Lauren Hyams, and Education Team Co-ordinator Dan Fisher. Do reach out to us via the forum or social media.

We’re supported across the 欧美gv在线观看 and our wider community by an awesome team that helps us design and deliver the events.

Without the support of all these people, we would not be able to run the volume of events that we do – I’d like to give a huge thank you with bells on to all our helpers!

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