Looking back to move forwards: how educational literature can inspire new teaching strategies

Learning to program can be exceptionally challenging for students. So how can we make learning to program easier for our students?

This talk will explore concepts from the literature such as the constructivist theory of education, Bloom’s taxonomy and the worked example effect and discuss how they can be applied to different teaching strategies to help students learn more effectively. Drawing on my own teaching experiences, I will provide some examples of how these concepts can inform teaching practices and guide the development of resources for teaching programming.

The goal of this talk is to encourage other educators to reflect on their own teaching strategies and to consider new approaches that they could implement in their classrooms, whether it be through minor tweaks or a complete redevelopment of their teaching materials.