2024 Volume 32 Pages 113-121
Since FY 2020, programming has been a mandatory subject in elementary schools in Japan. Each elementary school decides the grades and subjects for programming in each aspect of curriculum management. However, there have been few reports on school-wide programming education. In this paper, we report on school-wide programming education delivered at an elementary school since 2017. We also report the content of the instructional plans and lesson practices for each grade level developed based on five years of classroom practice. In addition to this, a comparison of the results of the responses to the 2018 and 2021 questionnaires completed by enrolled teachers is used to examine changes in teacher awareness due to school-wide programming education initiatives. Questionnaire surveys of the pupils and teachers suggested that the lesson practices had elicited the pupils' interest in programming and enhanced their subject knowledge. It was also suggested that the teachers' knowledge and awareness of programming education improved through continuous school-wide efforts.
