Best Practice

Computing: Whole-team schemes of work

Involving teachers in creating your computing schemes of work – even those who aren’t computing experts – is something Terry Freedman strongly recommends...

Do you find it hard to delegate the creation of the scheme of work? Or perhaps you’d love to delegate, but doubt it would work because the teachers in your team are not as knowledgeable or as experienced as you. Either way, you could be losing out in a number of ways.

When I was a head of ICT and computing I found that by involving teachers in developing the scheme of work it was much richer as a result – even with teachers who aren’t computing experts.

Although, why bother? After all, you’re the expert, you can probably write a scheme of work standing on your head, and there’s nothing wrong with one you already have anyway. Nevertheless, there are a number of advantages of getting others involved.

Register now, read forever

Thank you for visiting SecEd and reading some of our content for professionals in secondary education. Register now for free to get unlimited access to all content.

What's included:

  • Unlimited access to news, best practice articles and podcast

  • New content and e-bulletins delivered straight to your inbox every Monday and Thursday

Register

Already have an account? Sign in here