Preferences of IT Teachers Related to the Implementation of the Thematic Unit of Algorithmization and Programming into the Teaching

Abstract

The development and incorporation of the concept of developing pupils' computational thinking into the curriculum of IT subjects is one of the major challenges which the Czech school system is currently facing. Although there is a prevailing opinion about the need to innovate the curriculum of IT subjects in the professional community, the way to achieve it is still not fixed and many discussions about its form are being led. In this discussion, the view that the main tool for further development in this area is the introduction of a compulsory thematic unit focusing on the teaching of Algorithmization and Programming, which is to become a major cross-cutting theme across the individual age categories of pupils and students, is increasingly resonating. When implementing the innovated curriculum of IT subjects, it is necessary to take into account also the preferences and opinions of the key players-IT teachers who will implement the teaching of the newly introduced thematic unit. So, what are the preferences of IT teachers in the case of the introduction of a new thematic unit of Algorithmization and Programming into teaching? This is one of the questions we have been trying to find an answer to using the conducted research survey, whose course and results are presented in this paper.