Computer Science: Meaning, nature and scope – Aims and objectives of teaching Computer Science in schools – Need and significance of teaching Computer Science– Values of teaching Computer Science.

Steps in planning a lesson: Setting lesson goals – Designing a unit plan – Designing a lesson plan – Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives – Formulating Instructional objectives at cognitive, affective and psychomotor levels – Structure of a four-fold lesson plan – Preparation of a model lesson plan – Types of test-items – Constructing test-items for formative evaluation in class.

Meaning of teaching – Understanding major teaching skills: Introducing, explaining, questioning, varying the stimulus, non-verbal cues, reinforcement and fluency in communication – Practising a mini-lesson with multiple teaching skills (for 20 minutes)- Observation and feedback on the practice of integration of teaching skills – Understanding major steps in teaching a mini lesson: Motivation, presentation, interaction, reflection and summing up – Practising mini-lesson (for 20 minutes)- Observation and feedback on mini- teaching. (Note: Teacher-Educators should give a demonstration of a mini-lesson by integrating major teaching skills (for 20 minutes) and they should demonstrate a mini-lesson by integrating major teaching steps in teaching.)

Teacher-centered methods: Lecture method - Demonstration method - Teamteaching. Learner-centered methods: Laboratory method - project method – Peer tutoring/teaching by students - Individual activities - experiential learning, -Teacher - guided learning - problem-solving method - Small group/whole-class interactive learning. Student seminar - group discussion – mixed-ability grouping. Recent trends in teaching: Constructivist learning- Problem-based learning - Brain-based learning - Collaborative learning - Flipped learning - Blended learning - e-Learning trends- Video conferencing.

Print resources: Newspapers –Journals - Magazines - Computer Science encyclopedias. Audio resources: Radio talk - audio tapes- DVDs /CDs.Visual resources: Pictures – charts –posters - photos - graphs - flash cards - models. ICT resources: Radio - TV – Internet – multimedia - interactive whiteboard. Community resources: Fieldtrips - Computer Science exhibition/fair – Computer Science Laboratory – Computer Science Resource Centre – Computer Science Club- Qualities of a good Computer Science textbook - Qualities of a Computer Science teacher.