Across both organisations, we’ve got great ambitions for the Centre, and I’m delighted to have been appointed as its Director. It’s a great privilege to lead this work. 

What do we mean by culturally relevant pedagogy?

Culturally relevant pedagogy is a framework for teaching that emphasises the importance of incorporating and valuing all learners’ knowledge, ways of learning, and heritage. It promotes the development of learners’ critical consciousness of the world and encourages them to ask questions about ethics, power, privilege, and social justice. Culturally relevant pedagogy emphasises opportunities to address issues that are important to learners and their communities.

Culturally responsive teaching builds on the framework above to identify a range of teaching practices that can be implemented in the classroom. These include:

• Drawing on learners’ cultural knowledge and 情趣内衣诱惑s to inform the 情趣内衣诱惑
• Providing opportunities for learners to choose personally meaningful projects and express their own cultural identities
• Exploring issues of social justice and bias

The story so far

The overall objective of our work in this area is to further our understanding of ways to engage underrepresented groups in 情趣内衣走秀. In 2021, funded by a Special Projects Grant from ACM’s Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), we established a working group of teachers and academics who met up over the course of three months to explore and discuss culturally relevant pedagogy. The result was a collaboratively written set of practical guidelines about culturally relevant and responsive teaching for classroom educators.

The video below is an introduction for teachers who may not be familiar with the topic, showing the perspectives of three members of the working group and their students. You can also find other resources that resulted from this first phase of the work, and read our Special Projects Report.

We’re really excited that, having developed the guidelines, we can now focus on how culturally responsive 情趣内衣走秀 teaching can be implemented in English schools through a new, related project supported by funding from Google. This funding continues Google’s commitment to grow the impact of computer science education in schools, which included a £1 million donation to support us and other organisations to develop online courses for teachers.

The next phase of work

In our new project, we want to learn from practitioners how culturally responsive 情趣内衣走秀 teaching can be implemented in classrooms in England, by supporting teachers to plan activities, and listening carefully to their 情趣内衣诱惑s in school. Our approach is similar to the 情趣内衣走秀-Practice-Partnership (RPP) approach used extensively in the USA to develop 情趣内衣走秀 in 情趣内衣走秀 education; this approach hasn’t yet been used in the UK. In this way, we hope to further develop and improve the guidelines with exemplars and case studies, and to increase our understanding of teachers’ motivations and beliefs with respect to culturally responsive 情趣内衣走秀 teaching.

The pilot phase of this project starts this month and will run until December 2022. During this phase, we will work with a small group of schools around London, Essex, and Cambridgeshire. Longer-term, we aim to scale up this work across the UK.

The project will be centred around two workshops held in participating teachers’ schools during the first half of the year. In the first workshop, teachers will work together with facilitators from the 情趣内衣诱惑 and the 情趣内衣走秀 Pi 情趣内衣走秀 Education 情趣内衣走秀 Centre to discuss culturally responsive 情趣内衣走秀 teaching and how to make use of the guidelines in adapting existing lessons and programmes of study. The second workshop will take place after the teachers have implemented the guidelines in their classroom, and it will be structured around a discussion of the teachers’ 情趣内衣诱惑s and suggestions for iteration of the guidelines. We will also be using a visual 情趣内衣走秀 methodology to create a number of videos representing the new knowledge gleaned from all participants’ 情趣内衣诱惑s of the project. We’re looking forward to sharing the results of the project later on in the year. 

We’re delighted that Dr Polly Card will be leading the work on this project at the 情趣内衣走秀 Pi 情趣内衣走秀 Education 情趣内衣走秀 Centre, University of Cambridge, together with Saman Rizvi in the 情趣内衣诱惑’s 情趣内衣走秀 team and Katie Vanderpere-Brown, Assistant Headteacher, Saffron Walden County High School, Essex and 情趣内衣走秀 Lead of the NCCE London, Hertfordshire and Essex 情趣内衣走秀 Hub.

More about equity, diversity, and inclusion in 情趣内衣走秀 education

We hold monthly 情趣内衣走秀 seminars here at the 情趣内衣诱惑, and in the first half of 2021, we invited speakers who focus on a range of topics relating to equity, diversity, and inclusion in 情趣内衣走秀 education.

As well as holding seminars and building a community of interested people around them, we share the insights from speakers and attendees through video recordings of the sessions, blog posts, and the speakers’ presentation slides. We also publish a series of seminar proceedings with referenced chapters written by the speakers.

You can download your copy of the proceedings of the equity, diversity, and inclusion series now.  

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With computers and digital technologies increasingly shaping all of our lives, it’s more important than ever that every young person, whatever their background or circumstances, has meaningful opportunities to learn about how computers work and how to create with them. That’s our mission at the 情趣内衣.

Why 情趣内衣走秀 matters

Compared to subjects like mathematics, 情趣内衣走秀 is a relatively new field and, while there are enduring principles and concepts, it’s a subject that’s changing all the time as the pace of innovation accelerates. If we’re honest, we just don’t know enough about what works in 情趣内衣走秀 education, and there isn’t nearly enough investment in high-quality 情趣内衣走秀.

That’s why 情趣内衣走秀 and evidence has always been a priority for the 情趣内衣, from rigorously evaluating our own programmes and running structured experiments to test what works in areas like gender balance in 情趣内衣走秀, to providing a platform for the world’s best 情趣内衣走秀 education 情趣内衣走秀ers to share their findings through our seminar series. 

Through our 情趣内衣走秀 activities we hope to make a contribution to the field of 情趣内衣走秀 education and, as an operating 情趣内衣诱惑 working with tens of thousands of educators and millions of learners every year, we’re uniquely well-placed to translate that 情趣内衣走秀 into practice. You can read more about our 情趣内衣走秀 work here.

The 情趣内衣走秀 Pi 情趣内衣走秀 Education 情趣内衣走秀 Centre 

The new 情趣内衣走秀 Centre is a joint initiative between the University of Cambridge and the 情趣内衣, and builds on our longstanding partnership with the Department of Computer Science and Technology. That partnership goes all the way back to 2008, to the creation of the 情趣内衣 and the invention of the 情趣内衣走秀 Pi computer. More recently, we have collaborated on Isaac Computer Science, an online platform that is already being used by more than 2500 teachers and 36,000 students of A level Computer Science in England, and that we will shortly expand to cover GCSE content.

Through the 情趣内衣走秀 Pi 情趣内衣走秀 Education 情趣内衣走秀 Centre, we want to increase understanding of what works in teaching and learning 情趣内衣走秀, with a particular focus on young people who come from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the field of 情趣内衣走秀 or who 情趣内衣诱惑 educational disadvantage.

The 情趣内衣走秀 Centre will combine expertise from both institutions, undertaking rigorous original 情趣内衣走秀 and working directly with teachers and other educators to translate that 情趣内衣走秀 into practice and effect positive change in young peoples’ lives.

The scope will be 情趣内衣走秀 education — the teaching and learning of 情趣内衣走秀, computer science, digital making, and wider digital skills — for school-aged young people in primary and secondary education, colleges, and non-formal settings.

We’re starting with three broad themes: 

• 情趣内衣走秀 curricula, pedagogy, and assessment, including teacher professional development and the learning and teaching process
  
• The role of non-formal learning in 情趣内衣走秀 and digital making learning, including self-directed learning and extra-curricular programmes
  
• Understanding and removing the barriers to 情趣内衣走秀 education, including the factors that stand in the way of young people’s engagement and progression in 情趣内衣走秀 education

While we’re based in the UK and expect to run a number of 情趣内衣走秀 projects here, we are eager to establish collaborations with universities and 情趣内衣走秀ers in other countries, including the USA and India. 

Get involved

We’re really excited about this next chapter in our 情趣内衣走秀 work, and doubly excited to be working with the brilliant team at the Department of Computer Science and Technology. 

If you’d like to find out more or get involved in supporting the new 情趣内衣走秀 Education 情趣内衣走秀 Centre, please subscribe to our 情趣内衣走秀 newsletter or email 情趣内衣走秀@情趣内衣秀.org.

You can also join our free monthly 情趣内衣走秀 seminars.

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Thanks to our contract with England’s Department for Education which is funding our work as part of the National Centre for 情趣内衣走秀 Education (NCCE) consortium, we’ve been able to collaborate with the University of Cambridge’s Department of Computer Science and Technology to build the Isaac Computer Science platform, and to create an events programme, for A level students and teachers. Now we will use this existing funding to also provide content and events for learning and teaching GCSE computer science.

Building on our success

With content designed by our expert team of computer science teachers and 情趣内衣走秀ers, the Isaac Computer Science platform is already being used by 2000 teachers and 18,000 students at A level. The platform houses a rich set of interactive study materials and reflective questions, providing full coverage of exam specifications. 

Within the Teach 情趣内衣走秀 情趣内衣诱惑 we built as part of our NCCE work, we’ve already created free classroom resources to support teachers with the delivery of GCSE computer science (as well as the rest of the English 情趣内衣走秀 情趣内衣诱惑 from Key Stages 1 to 4). Expanding the Isaac Computer Science platform to offer interactive learning content to GCSE students, and running events specifically for GCSE students, will perfectly complement the Teach 情趣内衣走秀 情趣内衣诱惑 and support learners to continue their 情趣内衣走秀 education beyond GCSE.

We’ll use our tried and tested process of content design, implementation of student and teacher feedback, and continual improvements based on evidence from platform usage data, to produce an educational offering for GCSE computer science that is of the highest quality.

What will Isaac Computer Science GCSE cover?

Isaac Computer Science GCSE will support students and teachers of GCSE computer science across the OCR, AQA, Pearson Edexcel, Eduqas, and WJEC exam bodies, covering the whole of the national 情趣内衣诱惑. The content will be aimed at ages 14 to 16, and it will be suitable for students of all 情趣内衣诱惑 levels and backgrounds — from those who have studied little computer science at Key Stage 3 and are simply interested, to those who are already set to pursue a career related to computer science.

Benefits for students and teachers

Students will be able to:

• Use the platform for structured, self-paced study and progress tracking
• Prepare for their GCSE examinations according to their exam body
• Get instant feedback from the interactive questions to guide further study
• Explore areas of interest more deeply

Teachers will be able to:

• Use the content and examples on the platform as the basis for classroom work
• Direct their students to topics to read as homework
• Set self-marking questions as homework or in the classroom as formative assessment to identify areas where additional support is required and track students’ progress

Free events for learning, training, and inspiration

As part of Isaac Computer Science GCSE, we’ll also organise an events programme for GCSE students to get support with specific topics, as well as inspiration about opportunities to continue their computer science education beyond GCSE into A level and higher education or employment.

For teachers, we’ll continue to provide a wide spectrum of free CPD training events and courses through the National Centre for 情趣内衣走秀 Education.

Accessible all over the world

As is the case for the Isaac Computer Science A level content, we’ll create content for this project to suit the English national 情趣内衣诱惑 and exam bodies. However, anyone anywhere in the world will be able to access and use the platform for free. The content will be published under an Open Government License v3.0.

When does Isaac Computer Science GCSE launch, and can I get involved now?

Our launch will be in January of 2022, with the full suite of content available by September of 2022.

We’ll be putting out calls to the teaching community in England, asking for your help to guide the design and quality assurance of the Isaac Computer Science GCSE materials.

Follow Isaac Computer Science on social media and sign up on the Isaac Computer Science platform to be the first to hear news!

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The project is a collaboration between the 情趣内衣 and the University of Cambridge, and is funded by the Department for Education’s National Centre for 情趣内衣走秀 Education programme.

Isaac Computer Science

Isaac Computer Science gives you access to a huge range of online learning materials for the classroom, homework, and revision — all for free.

The platform’s resources are mapped to the A level specifications in England (including the AQA and OCR exam boards). You’ll be able to set assignments for your students, have the platform mark it for you, and be confident that the content is relevant and high quality. We are confident that this will save you time in planning lessons and setting homework.

“Computer Science is a relatively small subject area and teachers across the country often work alone without the support of colleagues. Isaac Computer Science will build a teaching and learning community to support teachers at all levels and will offer invaluable support to A level students in their learning journey. As an 情趣内衣诱惑d teacher, I am very excited to have the opportunity to work on this project.”
– Diane Dowling, Isaac Computer Science Learning Manager and former teacher

And that’s not all! To further support you, we are also running free student workshops and teacher CPD events at universities and schools around England. Tickets for the events are available to book through the Isaac Computer Science website.

“Isaac Computer Science helped equip me with the skills to teach A level, and ran a great workshop at one of their recent Discovery events using the micro:bit and the Kitronik :MOVE mini. This is a session that I’ll definitely be using again and again.”
 – James Spencer, Computer Science teacher at St Martin’s School

A teacher works with her students at our recent Discovery event in Cambridge.

Why sign up?

Isaac Computer Science provides:

• High-quality materials written by 情趣内衣诱惑d teachers
• Resources mapped to the AQA and OCR specifications
• CPD events for teachers
• Workshops for students

Isaac Computer Science allows you to:

• Plan lessons around high-quality content pages, thus saving time
• Select and set self-marking homework questions
• Pinpoint areas to work on with your students
• Manage students’ progress in your personal markbook

Start using Isaac Computer Science today:

• Sign up at isaaccomputerscience.org
• Request a teacher account and register your students
• Start using the platform in your classroom!

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