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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Countries where programming is taught as a core course within computer science.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Germany and Israel are the countries where a strong curriculum in computer science (CS) is well established. This curriculum includes problem solving, programming, as
well as other skills related to CT. In primary and secondary schools in Germany, students are exposed to robotics and HTML as an introduction to the main topics related to CS in parallel with a strong focus on privacy and ethics. High schools in Germany place
a strong emphasis on computer programming and computational theory to develop higher skills related to CS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Israel on the other hand, has developed and implemented a model for a high school CS education program based in four pillars:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(a) National CS curriculum and syllabus,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(b) Research in CS education,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(c)
<b>CS teacher preparation programs</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(d)
<b>Mandatory CS teaching license</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In both countries, there is a strong focus on teacher training, ranging from CS bachelor degrees to extensive pedagogical training certified by the Ministry of Education
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:11.55pt"><b><span style="color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Ms. Jayanti S Nayak</span></b><span style="color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
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