Abstract:

In September 2014 the new National Curriculum programmes of study for Computing became mandatory in England, replacing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a school subject with Computer Science (CS), in secondary schools. This posed a challenge for in-service ICT teachers without CS subject knowledge. Computer programming (CP) is becoming ever increasingly important in society in the world today. Many educational institutions need it for several educational operations. However, the programming in many secondary educations have not been well developed. The interest in this area is still new, the amount of research conducted in the field is still limited.

In this paper, an attempt is made to highlight the following challenges and problems facing by teachers are:
(a) Teaching pattern of CP in secondary schools
(b) difficulties in implementation of new curriculum in schools, it also seeks this study that needs to be done to improve the learning and teaching of CP and the factors influencing the effective teaching of CP in the new curriculum.

Approximately 100 teachers participated in this study, the study has used quantitative and qualitative approaches during the same timeframe with equal weight. The study carried out investigation research tools such as questionnaires and using interviews. For statistical analysis SPSS and ANOVA software was used.

Finally, this paper identifies the main challenges facing the implementation of the CP; lack of resources, time, support, programming experience, confidence and teachers who do not have a link with academics researching the education of programming. It founded that subject knowledge skills are one of the fields that centering in England, in order to encourage teachers in feeling confident about teaching programming, it is important to offer support and other professional opportunities for development for those who presently be charged with teaching CP in schools. (Moller and Powell, 2019).

References:
[1] F. Moller, and S. Powell, “Teaching Computing via a School Placement,” In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice, p. 2. 2019.

Keywords:

Computer programming, National Curriculum, key stage 4, secondary school, challenge and problems, teaching, learning.