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Teaching Planning
Abstract
Teaching planning is one of the main pedagogical activities teachers perform. All
the tools, ideas, and perspectives presented in the guide can be used and applied
in the process of teaching planning, which is, to some extent, independent of the
taught discipline. In this chapter, we offer and demonstrate a top-down approach
for teaching planning which takes into account a wide range of considerations,
and present several activities to be facilitated in the Methods of Teaching Com-
puter Science (MTCS) course for this purpose. The principles of teaching plan-
ning presented in this chapter can serve any computer science educator in any
teaching framework.
11.1
Introduction
Planning the teaching process is one of the basic practices any teacher performs,
and therefore, prospective teachers should acquire the skills needed to accomplish
this multilayered task. We assume that the students (i.e. the prospective computer
science teachers) have already learned the basic principles of how to plan a de-
tailed lesson layout in one of the general didactics courses. In this chapter, we il-
lustrate how to guide the students to apply this general knowledge in the context of
computer science education and further, to take into the consideration the various
aspects, teaching tools, and teaching methods presented in the previous chapters
of this Guide. Specifically, we suggest a top-down approach for teaching planning
(Sect. 11.2), illustrate it with respect to the teaching planning of one-dimensional
array (Sect. 11.3), and present several activities to be facilitated with the prospective
computer science teachers in the Methods of Teaching Computer Science (MTCS)
course (see Sect. 11.4).
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