Kurre
Får jag presentera Kurre, han har nyligen blivit tvungen att byta bostad från min bror till min mor. Så just nu har han fullt upp med att betrakta sina nya ägor - det är lite kul att se hur han kan sitta på verandan i timmar och bara titta på allting som rör sig (hos min bror var han tvungen att vara inomhus) och vad som händer runt omkring honom. Men han ser ut att tycka att flytten var en förbättring.
Teaching Teachers
A few days before my vacation started, the department signed an agreement with the Swedish National Agency for Education to teach a programming course to working teachers, a course that starts in August. This translates to me doing my best to teach a group of teachers programming - something I’ve never done before.
Since we will have very little time to prepare for this course we will not have the time to create a whole new course that targets this group of “students”, instead we are going to adapt an existing course so that it works OK. Later we will create a course that is especially targeted towards active teachers, but for now this will have to work.
I’m looking forward to teach this course. There are several reasons for this - first of all I’ve never taught a course where the participants have been teachers. I expect this will be very different than teaching CS students or giving a course at a company. Secondly, I hope to learn a lot of how it is to trying to teach kids, age range 13-18, programming - this must be completely different than teaching CS students. Thirdly, I hope to learn if we can help the teachers in some way.
In other words I’m really looking forward to this course.
