Teaching Didactics of Informatics to Secondary School Informatics Student Teachers

In this paper, the authors introduce an innovative conception for a lecture course "Didactics of Informatics I”, in which Informatics student teachers learn teaching technical Informatics concepts to students of different secondary school types. Therefore, the organization of the German school and teacher education system is sketched at first. Afterwards, substantive requirements for such a course are derived and linked with organizational settings. On this basis, the course conception is founded and first experiences with its implementation in the Informatics teacher studies are described. Finally, the authors discuss the potential of the approach for web-based training courses for teachers in Informatics, for which there is in many federal states still a great need.