Open AccessTraining programming to prospective IT teachers: tasks with a spiral-increasing complexity
Author(s) -
Valeriy Isaakovich Pugach,
Irina Viktorovna Tyuzhina,
Elena Leonidovna Makarova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
samarskij naučnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-3016
pISSN - 2309-4370
DOI - 10.17816/snv201984311
Subject(s) - computer science , competence (human resources) , mathematics education , task (project management) , field (mathematics) , computer programming , programming language , mathematics , psychology , engineering , social psychology , systems engineering , pure mathematics
This paper discusses one of the urgent problems of prospective IT teachers training the development of a special competence: the ability to use the programming methodology for solving tasks of the school Computer Science course. In contrast to the classical approach in teaching methods, when each topic under the section Programming is fixed by the solution of a number of simple tasks, we propose to solve problems with spirally increasing complexity (such tasks will be understood as large projects, the implementation of which can be improved throughout the study of the programming course, while at each stage the result of the work will be a full-fledged workable program). Any round of the solution, except for the first one, can be omitted without loss of functionality, and each block of the task can be independently evaluated by students. The paper provides an example of such a problem, describes in detail the stages of its solution, as well as the evaluation system. This technique has been tested at Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education with the students majoring in 44.03.01 Pedagogical Education (Computer Science). The proposed method has shown good results both in the field of motivation and in terms of learning.