We love Data, but the team at Data Education in Schools also love Computing Science!

Here are some resources for teaching Computing Science, to support industry visitors coming to your school and to encourage people to train as a CS teacher.

Teach Computing Science Guides for Teachers

Cover for the Teach CS Guide. The image on the cover shows four learners and a teacher playing with paint-covered round Sphero ball robots. They are siting at a table covered with white paper and the sphero bots are trailing paint across the paper in triangular shapes

Several of our team were involved in working with Education Scotland to develop the revised Computing Science experiences and outcomes and benchmarks.  After these were launched, we wrote guides on Teaching Computing Science for primary and secondary teachers to support educators in teaching this new national curriculum.

Download the Guide for Primary and Early Years (pdf)

Download the Guide for Secondary (pdf)

Access the Guide for Secondary (Google Doc)

Scottish Teachers Advancing Computing Science

Multicoloured letters S T A C S arranged like tetris blocksOur primary and secondary guides were written in 2018 and 2019 respectively, but since then, Scottish Teachers Advancing Computing Science (STACS) has been established to develop teaching materials to support CS in Primary and Secondary.  We recommend you join STACS free and check out their wonderful resources.

Support for Industry visitors

Image of a brown-haired white man smiling. Text says Craig Steele, Director, Digital Skills EducationThe team created a set of video guides for Industry people visiting schools as speakers, helpers or STEM Ambassadors.

Watch the videos.

Ctrl-Alt-Teach

Ctrl-Alt-Teach in white text on a bubbly blue backgroundWith Digital Skills Education, we’ve created a set of videos for university students studying Computing Science or others who might be interested in a career in teaching.

Watch these on YouTube.