You’ll look at general pedagogical concepts like Bloom’s verbs, semantic waves and cognitive load, as well as programming specific approaches such as Parson’s Problems or designing lessons using levels of abstraction.
You’ll have the chance to reflect on your current teaching practices, and how you can adapt your own lessons to take advantage of these approaches.
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to pedagogical concepts
Week 2: Targeted tasks
Week 3: More targeted tasks
Week 4: Applying pedagogical approaches
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Describe a range of pedagogical approaches, including unplugged approaches, 'Use-Modify-Create', and Parson's Problems
- Investigate the key programming concepts of sequence, variables, selection, and iteration, and how these can be taught
- Model a learning sequence as a semantic wave
- Apply different pedagogies into a lesson plan
- Evaluate the use of these pedagogical approaches in your classroom