Essential Computing Teacher's Guide Basic 7

Essential Computing offers you a premium course in Computing. The material has been developed to meet the full requirements of the Common Core curriculum for JHS, as developed by th National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA). Carefully addressing all strands, sub-strands, xontent standards, indicators and core competencies. Throughout the series, attitudes, values and skills as indicated as prescribed by the curriculum, are addressed.

Essential Computing encourages learners to be active and succesful citizens in the workplace, through the development of computing skills in everyday life.

The Essential Basic 7 Learner’s Book offers you attractive pages with:

• accessible and relevant content, supported by meaningful illustrations that bring English to life
• clear explanations of basic concepts
• a variety of activities to develop and consolidate knowledge and skills, including creative problem-solving skills to improve learner engagement
• relevant screenshots and step-by-step instructions on how to complete computing tasks
• checklists that can be used for self-assessment of activities
• assessment sections that can be used to evaluate progress and achievement.

The Essential Basic 7 Facilitator’s Guide enables you to teach the new curriculum with confidence and offers:

• step-by-step teaching guidelines
• answers to activities in the Learner’s Book
• assessment rubrics to assess learners’ listening, speaking and writing tasks
• memos to assess learners’ comprehension and grammar tasks
• activities that can be used for Diagnostic assessment
• careful development of the theoretical and practical tasks in the use of a computer
• specific activities for low-resource schools
• remedial and extension activities to support multi-ability learning.

Learning is Essential !