Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools ― A Practical Handbook

This book provides a step-by-step guide to teaching computing at secondary level. It offers an entire framework for planning and delivering the curriculum and shows you how to create an environment in which all students enjoy computing and feel they can achieve. The focus throughout is on giving students the opportunity to think, program, build, create, persevere and grow to help them transform from users to creators of technology. Including case studies and planning templates, this book is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers that want their students to aquire a wide range of computing skills which will support them in whatever career path they choose.

William Lau is currently in charge of Key Stage 4 Computing at Central Foundation Boys’ School in London. Lau has taught computing from Key Stages 1 through 5 in three London state schools and in an International school in Seychelles. He has delivered CPD at various UK schools and universities, specialising in curriculum design, assessment design and computing pedagogy. He has mentored trainee teachers at King’s College London and the University of Roehampton. Lau is a CAS Master Teacher and a Google Certified Innovator. In July 2017 he received an international Award for Teaching Excellence in computer science from the?Infosys Foundation in the US, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer Science Teachers Association. He was head of computing at the Greenwich Free School until August 2017.