12 | PRIMARY AND SECONDARY NEWS
Microsoft and CAS team up to help teachers
Microsoft and Computing at Schools group (CAS) are joining forces to help teachers inspire a new generation of young people
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acked by a £334,000 investment from Microsoft, CAS is holding a series of ‘Back to School’ training
sessions to show teachers how they can take the complexity of Coding and Computer Science and make it engaging to the touchscreen generation. The ‘Countdown to Computing’
programme will see Microsoft and CAS create two training courses for teachers; one for primary and one for secondary, together with supporting classroom resources that teachers can use in their first term. Using the CAS hubs, experts including
the CAS master teachers will deliver face to face training across the country with 2,500 local events. There will also be more flexible training options via Skype so that all teachers can make the most of the training and resources available. “In 2009 a nine-year-old boy from
Singapore built an app that has been downloaded more than 800,000 times, in 2013, a seven-year-old girl from Philadelphia became the youngest person to build a mobile game app,” said Michel
Van der Bel, UK MD Microsoft. He added: “If we want the next success
story to be based in Britain then we need teachers who have the right skills and the confidence to inspire, support and enable them to do so. That’s why, as part of Microsoft’s ‘Countdown to Computing’ programme, we have partnered with CAS to deliver a series of personal training sessions across the country as teachers get ready for that all important first term.” Microsoft’s partnership with CAS
will deliver training and resources for roughly one in every five primary school teachers in the county and at least three specialist teachers in every secondary school. Part of the British Computer Society, CAS is a grassroots organisation chaired by Simon Peyton-Jones from Microsoft Research Cambridge and they have been at the heart of the Computing curriculum reform. CAS is the government’s partner for
teacher training through the Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science (NoE) and the Barefoot Computing programmes, both of which are run by
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