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Teaching students to code

Leave a Comment / 1 Know students and how they learn, 1.2 Understand how students learn, 1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities, 2 Know the content and how to teach it, 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, 2.2 Content selection and organisation, 2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting, 2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT), 3 Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning, 3.1 Establish challenging learning goals, 3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs, 3.3 Use teaching strategies, 3.4 Select and use resources, 3.5 Use effective classroom communication, 3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs, 3.7 Engage parents / carers in the educative process, 4 Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments, 4.2 Manage classroom activities, 4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically, 5 Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning, 5.1 Assess student learning, 5.2 Provide feedback to students on their learning, 5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgements, 5.4 Interpret student data, 5.5 Report on student achievement, 6 Engage in professional learning, 6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice, 7 Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community, 7.3 Engage with the parents/carers, 7.4 Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities / By

 Situation As a digital technologies teacher, one of the principal skills that I need to teach students is how to code. The WA curriculum deliberately has a very broad interpretation of teaching coding focussing on the general principles to help students develop crucial problem-solving skills rather than mandating a particular language. This is great in …

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