Teaching Tech Together

by Greg Wilson

How to design and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Programming

300 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2018

Reviews

[Luboš]

Every instructor needs three things: content knowledge , such as how to program; general pedagogical knowledge , such as an understanding of the psychology of learning; and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), which is the domain-specific knowledge of how to teach a particular concept to a particular audience.

I have started a programmer club, so children do not have to learn to program on their own but I need to learn how to teach. And this book helped me.

people don’t have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach

Includes exhaustive list of books to read.

[S]

Available at http://teachtogether.tech/en/

[Alex Olteanu]

I found this an excellent book on the pedagogy of programming. It covers pretty well a few topics that can be helpful to teachers: learner personas, cognitive aspects of learning, assessment types, teaching methods and exercise types (specifically for programming) etc.

Each chapter has an impressive number of references to papers in education science — and a lot of papers are fairly recent (no more than four-five years old).

At the time I read this book, I found it best to read it on the teachtogether.tech website, since that's where I was able to read the very last version of the book — the book is updated frequently (the book is also open-sourced on GitHub, and contributions are accepted as far as I've seen).

I teach programming both in-person and in the online space, and there's really no doubt that this book has helped me getting better at doing that.

[Cedric Chin]

This is a tour de force of everything that is known (or needs to be known) for teaching programming to beginners. Self learners or more general teachers would also find value from the first 3 chapters, which covers learning science, and includes insights into how humans learn.

[Julie Moronuki]

This is such a thorough and well-researched book. I've been a teacher for years and trained as a teacher, and I still learned a lot from it and got a dozen or so new ideas to try out in my own teaching. The exercises are great, so specific and detailed, and will help you develop methods and ideas.

[Andreiqutz]

amazing book.collection of best practices, well supported by scientific research and teaching experience. highly recommended to anyone who’s trying, even remotely, to teach or coach on topics such as coding, programming, testing or similar software related concepts.

[zack]

One of the best books on applied pedagogy, especially if you plan on teaching a technical subject.

[Kris]

If you want to teach programming, then it's a must-read.

My summary here https://kula.blog/posts/teaching_tech...