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On 11/01/12 09:48, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:09:55 +0000 (GMT) > Gordon Henderson wrote: > >> Perhaps there is hope after all: >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16493929 >> >> Gordon > It's a good start, but I can't see it coming to fruition easily or > soon. In my experience, I(C)T in schools is almost always 'taught' by > non-specialists - there are exceptions to the rule, but that's always > the case with broad generalisations - and as such there is unlikely to > be a body of I(C)T teachers in schools that are willing or capable of > teaching the 'new' curriculum. > > Getting IT specialists in to teach the subject would be the best > option, but that is not going to be an easy task. I, for one, would be > quite happy to go and teach IT in secondary schools, but it would mean > an absolutely massive drop in salary... and that's from someone who is > qualified to teach (I have a PGCE, but in "post compulsory education > and training")! To start out in a secondary school, I believe we're > talking about a salary of something in the region of Â17k or Â18k... > not bad to start with, but for many in IT that would represent a huge > drop. > > So where are we going to get these new IT teachers from? Those at Uni > studying IT courses will most likely not know of this proposed change, > and their experience of IT at school will probably put them off going > in to teach it anyway and those in the IT industry are likely to be put > off entering the teaching market by the potentially significant drop in > salary. > > Grant. > Surely to teach programming it would really help to have people teaching who have real world programming experience, so rather than graduates from Uni we have graduate --> industry --> teaching that way you are bringing knolwedge and experience to the post. It is like me with rugby, I could easily undertake a level 1 coaching course, having never played all i would do is teach what was on the course where as someone who has played can bring a different level of experience to that coaching. I am just sticking with tag. I guess its like giving a lesson on Life in china, having never lived there, or been to the country, where as if you bring in someone from that country to give a talk in a lesson you bring a new dynamic edge to the lesson, with resources etc Lets see what happens, but yeah, why go into teaching when you can earn far more in industry ( what did kevin post as a salary Â25 an hour). Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq