{"id":1005,"date":"2016-09-19T22:11:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T19:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2016-09-23T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:39:27","slug":"teachers-retooled-in-computer-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Retooled in Computer Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A participant presents his Algorithm using Pseudocode<\/p><\/div>\n

Teachers of ICT and Computer studies have been retooled to teach Computer Programming in Schools. This comes after Uganda National Examination board chief issued a circular<\/a> to schools reminding them that the examination body will test students on Elementary Programming principles as outlined in the 2008 curriculum.<\/p>\n

Many teachers have been dodging teaching this area of programming because many of them are not comfortable with the topic<\/p>\n

The training devoted almost 2 days to this topic covering aspects like
\n– Introduction to programming languages
\n– Program development cycle
\n– Control structures (sequence, repeat ion and iteration)<\/p>\n

\"Participant<\/a>

Participant presents his algorithm using Flowchart<\/p><\/div>\n

– Development of program algorithm using pseudocode and flow charts
\n– Introduction to C and Visual Basic Programming<\/p>\n

The retooling workshop was organised by Ministry of Education and Sports. It was sponsored by Uganda Communications commission.<\/p>\n

The training was conducted by a team from Sustainable Change Solutions, together with resource persons from UCC (Mr. James Belonda , Director – RCDF and Mr. Joseph Kizito from Consumer affairs). Ministry of Education and sports was represented by Mr. Alfred Kyaka \u2013 Assistant Commissioner, Secondary Education; and Mr. Muinda Patrick – Assistant Commissioner – ICT.<\/p>\n

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\"Mr.<\/a>

Mr. Kyaka from MOES awarding certificates to participants<\/p><\/div>\n

Other areas covered during the training included the use of support files, file management, database management and recent developments in ICT. Mr. Kalema,\u00a0 the lead facilitator also shared his experiences in the Media and ICT project which he is conducting with guidance from Life Academy – Sweden.<\/p>\n

(See Circular to schools from UNEB : https:\/\/ereg.uneb.ac.ug\/files\/roHK3_ComputerStudies8400001.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teachers of ICT and Computer studies have been retooled to teach Computer Programming in Schools. This comes after Uganda National Examination board chief issued a circular to schools reminding them that the examination body will test students on Elementary Programming principles as outlined in the 2008 curriculum. Many teachers have been dodging teaching this area […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}