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A number of schools have failed to train their teachers in the government's flagship computing curriculum introduced last year, which was intended to turn Blighty into a nation of coders.
One third of 27 secondary schools teaching kids up to and including GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) level have failed to spend any money training staff in the computing curriculum (on the new Key Stage 3 and 4), according to a number of Freedom of Information responses sent to software company MapR Technologies.
In contrast, the research revealed some schools had spent thousands training staff, indicating a huge disparity between institutions.
The article applies to the UK, but could as easily apply to the United States and elsewhere. How do we teach our kids to code if their teacher's can't code, and can't or won't learn first?
(Score: 1) by kazzie on Saturday September 05 2015, @06:29PM
I had a great introduction to coding at high school. We got a good grounding in object-oriented programming and put together a number of little projects. Our teacher also introduced us to table-top role-playing, and even ran a network gaming session on the school network after school hours.
But this teacher wasn't a teacher. He was just the network administrator. Our IT teacher, on the other hand, was a Design & Technology teacher who'd diversified some years previously.