Adapt your computing curriculum to better fit your school, including through adaptive teaching. Explore how to make the most of your computing budget, and move towards outstanding computing. This course is for computing subject leaders who are established and more experienced in the role.
Why should I attend?
- Advance your practice as subject leader and support teaching staff in your school as you work towards outstanding computing.
- Learn how to capitalise on your equipment, extend your budget and adapt your curriculum and pedagogy to meet the needs of all pupils.
- This course will help established primary computing leaders to go deeper into all things computing; making the most of what you already have but also discovering new possible avenues of funding.
- You will learn how best to improve provision and inclusion and increase subject knowledge and improve pedagogy in computing across your school.
What will the course cover?
- Session 1 | Advanced Curriculum Design – A practical session on designing a bespoke unit to replace/adapt an existing computing unit which meets the same objectives, but is tailored to the participants’ school; taking into consideration cultural capital, equipment, cohort knowledge and skill and software available.
- Session 2 | Inclusion, SEND & Adaptive teaching – Outlining the rationale for adapting the computing curriculum for SEND & higher ability pupils, explaining the process of how to adapt successfully without loss of rigour and giving time for a practical session on adapting using the Teach Computing Curriculum.
- Session 3 | Making the most of your computing budget – Pedagogy approaches and software advice to make the computing budget go further; including avenues and opportunities for funding a school’s computing budget.
- Session 4 | Outstanding Teaching – What does outstanding teaching look like in computing? What is the reality compared to expectation, and how do we move forward? Opportunity to explore diagnostic tools to evaluate and improve computing (CQF) – encourage participants to also look more closely at transition between EYFS, KS1, KS2 and KS3.
Who should attend?
- Subject Lead/Coordinator
- Teacher
