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ARE (FUTURE) TEACHERS OF INFORMATICS READY TO TEACH PROGRAMMING IN LOWER GRADES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?

The subject of Informatics was introduced to the lower graders this school year. The paper evaluates the readiness of the future and the current teachers of Informatics to teach programming skills, primarily through the pedagogical and professional modalities. There are here presented the results of a study conducted among the students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences with the given module and the teachers currently teaching Informatics in the higher primary school grades. Six students of this faculty and fifty-two teachers from the entire Republic of Croatia participated in the study. The participants self-assessed their competences, so it is was possible to assess their readiness to teach their learners how to do programming. The results show that they are sufficiently prepared at the pedagogical level, but require additional training at the professional level.

teaching programming ; lower grades of primary school ; Scratch ; students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences ; teachers of Informatics

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