Definition of the Holistic Content of the Course “Methodics of Teaching Informatics”

The article defines that the content of the course "Methodics of Teaching Informatics" as a basic discipline should ensure the following main tasks: awareness by future informatics teachers of the modern goals and content of the school course "Informatics"; familiarization of future informatics teachers with organizational forms, teaching methods, the most rational means of teaching informatics and innovative software products, forming the ability to reproduce the plan-summaries developed by them during Informatics lessons simulated in practical classes etc. It was determined that during the development of the content of the course "Methodics of Teaching Informatics" the following requirements should be confirmed: the presence of actual personally and socially significant lecture topics; ensuring the possibility of implementing an individual learning trajectory; application of interactive forms and methods of learning; active inclusion of students in practical activities that correspond to the study profile and professional direction; the focus of the content on the formation and development of students' general, educational and cognitive, intellectual and organizational qualities, etc. For the definition of the holistic content of the course "Methodics of Teaching Informatics" as a basic discipline of the professional direction, the need to implement the 7 principles is substantiated: principle of compliance with public demands; principle of scientism; principle of applied orientation; principle of demonstration; principle of availability of educational material in terms of depth and volume; principle of bottom line; principle of logical completeness and integrity. The content of the educational discipline "Methodics of Teaching Informatics" (270 academic hours (9 credits), which is taught for the first (bachelor's) level of higher education in the specialty "014.09. Secondary education (informatics)" field of knowledge "01. Education. Pedagogy" is suggested to be presented in two content modules: "Theoretical and regulatory aspects of teaching computer science in basic school" (5 semester) and "Methodical aspects of teaching computer science in basic school" (6 semester).