IBM Computing Summer School set to improve teachers’ IT skills

This July, teachers will have the chance to step out of the classroom setting and into the technology industry with the IBM Computing Summer School.

The three-day course, which will be delivered by IBM professionals, alongside staff from the London Connected Learning Centre, is aimed at primary school teachers with a responsibility for computing in school.

Teachers will be encouraged to explore effective ways to support colleagues in teaching computing; better understand the computing programmes’ attainment targets; get to grips with assessment and progression; and develop imaginative and creative ways to embed computing across the curriculum.

The programme will explore the principles of computational thinking, digital literacy, online safety and information systems within real world contexts, including IBM’s commercial and social programmes.

It will take place between 3 -5 July, at IBM Southbank - one of three Summer Schools that IBM is delivering this summer.

Mark Wakefield, corporate citizenship & corporate affairs manager at IBM UK, commented: “Education is a longstanding passion for IBM - we rely on a good supply of well-educated, digitally skilled young people entering our workforce, as do our clients.

“To ensure students effectively develop these skills, those teaching them need to be confident that their IT skills and training are up to date and that they are able to appropriately contextualise the subject that they are teaching.

“In the digital space, very few organisations have a real understanding of the pedagogy around technology; London Connected Learning Centre is the exception, they are experts in the area and simply have the educational knowledge that we don’t.

The course requires a £25 commitment fee to secure your place.