[Year 12 SofDev] [EXTERNAL SENDER] Re: Software Development position available

Thu Jul 28 22:21:23 UTC 2022

A good message Andrew. I think your third dot point can't be underestimated. Not only does a teacher need to debug the student's code, but often it is also 'debugging' their ideas first that helps just as much!

Even with only a dozen students, as they work building their SAT solutions you have to quickly adapt to each student's code and ideas in order to help them and keep them feeling positive about their work. It is challenging at times.

Guy Flaherty

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Subject: [EXTERNAL SENDER] Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Software Development position available

Hi All
Even though I am busy fading into the sunset this email chain is attractive (in the nicest way)

When we (YOU) look at up-skilling teachers…
•first they need to learn to code
•THEN they need to learn to teach coding
•AND they need to learn how to debug students’ code

each of those is VERY important

I used to teach ( "facilitate learning experiences in a student centred harmonious learning environment” )
and I am happy to share some of the tasks I used to build student skills

Most of my ideas centred around : build a core and add to it and then add functionality and then reflect on the interface and the modules
Most of my things revolved around  middle out planning.
Students SEEMED to follow the logic of honing in on core functionality and then planning and creating the bits necessary to achieve those functional requirements

Real programmers plan everything before they even write an algorithm - students need to learn what programming is before they can program
It has always been my mantra that people (students) learn best by doing, reflecting (HA HA) and then applying forward.

If a large think tank is convened I am happy to contribute before dementia sets in

Andrew Shortell

( gone, yes, forgotten - most likely)

On 28 Jul 2022, at 1:14 pm, Adrian Janson <janson.adrian.a at gmail.com<mailto:janson.adrian.a at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi all,

I 100% support Vic's suggestion here.

Reflecting on the current state of teacher employment, we recently advertised and receive 0 applicants. ZERO. I think academia is doing the best it can, but we need to think about this problem a different way. (I'm tempted to quote Einstein here, but you all know the quote!!). Looking forward, a BETTER solution would be to look to the teachers we have and work upskilling them to deliver our APC courses.

Phil - perhaps you could convene a think tank around this?

Cheers,
Adrian

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 12:58 PM Victoria Farrell <farrellv at stkevins.vic.edu.au<mailto:farrellv at stkevins.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
I would be keen to run some teacher training courses to upskill staff to teach Software. I am doing this at Parade College while I support their VCE class one day a week.

I think that would be a pro-active option for the long term to offer assistance to upskill teaching staff around Victoria. I have plenty of resources I am happy to share too, including a VB coding resource I have written. Coding is the main hurdle teachers have with teaching SD.

Thoughts?

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On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 12:29, Philip Feain <Philip.Feain at education.vic.gov.au<mailto:Philip.Feain at education.vic.gov.au>> wrote:

Dear All

Sorry about the cross-list posting here.

I have been asked by a major school (not far from the city and bay) if there are any Software Development teachers who would be available to cover their class after their teaching has become unavailable.

This would be for the rest of the year.

They are happy to discuss how this could be done understanding that teachers would be full-time in their current school.

If you are interested and think you could be able to help them out please let me know via my work email or phone. Don’t reply through the lists.

Kind Regards

Phil.

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