COIMBATORE: The state school education department is planning to conduct online training sessions on ‘Python’, a programming language, for computer teachers in government and government-aided schools.
The state has decided to make use of the lockdown period to train teachers online as the language has been included in the new computer syllabus. A communication from the director of school education to chief education officers and district education officers across the state said a two-week faculty development workshop on ‘problem solving using Python’ would be held for teachers.
The ‘bootcamp’ has been planned in order to help students acclimatize with the programming language early. When contacted, S Kannappan,director of school education, said the programming language has been included in the new computer science textbooks for higher secondary classes. “So far, computer teachers in government and government aided schools have been learning the language themselves and then teaching it to students. So we thought of making use of the lockdown to conduct an online training programme for them,” he told TOI.
The official said there were around 2,000 computer science teachers in government schools. The communication has been sent to headmasters of the schools through the CEOs and DEOs, he said. The sessions would be held for 12 days from 9.00am to 11.00am, said the communication. The teachers would complete 10 real-time exercises, it said, and added the schedule of the training programme could get altered.
The state has decided to make use of the lockdown period to train teachers online as the language has been included in the new computer syllabus. A communication from the director of school education to chief education officers and district education officers across the state said a two-week faculty development workshop on ‘problem solving using Python’ would be held for teachers.
The ‘bootcamp’ has been planned in order to help students acclimatize with the programming language early. When contacted, S Kannappan,director of school education, said the programming language has been included in the new computer science textbooks for higher secondary classes. “So far, computer teachers in government and government aided schools have been learning the language themselves and then teaching it to students. So we thought of making use of the lockdown to conduct an online training programme for them,” he told TOI.
The official said there were around 2,000 computer science teachers in government schools. The communication has been sent to headmasters of the schools through the CEOs and DEOs, he said. The sessions would be held for 12 days from 9.00am to 11.00am, said the communication. The teachers would complete 10 real-time exercises, it said, and added the schedule of the training programme could get altered.
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