I’ve recently started in a new school and at the moment I’m the only Computing teacher. I’m getting support from a DHT and a maths teacher to help deliver the computing courses.
I’m also working with the Business Studies department (different faculty) to deliver an ICT course that is vastly outdated and in 1st year is mainly admin work (letterheads, business cards, spreadsheets…etc). 2nd year is a bit more Computing related using scratch and databases however we don’t go too in depth.
What I’d like to do is make the case to the HT for a second computing teacher and to change the current setup for one where Computing is taught in S1, 2 and then leading on to a “choice” in S3 which is the model they’re looking at.
Has anyone had any discussions with their schools like this and would be able to share their ideas I’d just like to get a starting point to work from. Any help or advice would be greatly received.
Andy.
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