I don’t think rules, as commonly formulated, are very useful in the context of Computing lessons.
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Helping staff to develop and move on
You can’t hold on to good teachers forever. They will, at some point, wish to move on and seek positions of influence themselves.
Read More7 Expectations for Computing lessons
I don’t think rules, as commonly formulated, are very useful in the context of Computing lessons. Rules are usually framed in the negative. For example, in a computer lab I went into a few years ago on one of my school visits, there was a poster on the door listing all the things that people shouldn’t do:
Do not leave the computers on.
Do not leave printing next to the computers.
Do not just switch the computers off.
and so on.
There are two main problems with this sort of thing.
An unexpected delight in an ICT lesson
It's often in the least likely circumstances that we discover astonishing things about others, and possibly ourselves.
One day while teaching I saw Maryanne, a 14 year-old pupil, walk past my room. I asked her what she was doing out of her lesson.
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