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Mango Learning

We are a community of teachers that have developed extensive computing resources primarily aimed at the English secondary school curriculum that can be accessed here: www.mangolearning.academy.  Mango learning empowers teachers to deliver great lessons that explain complex ideas using clear and highly scaffolded teaching and learning resources. We are very excited to offer these resources for free to the community.

These teaching and learning resources for computing are made by teachers for teachers and we understand the day-to-day challenges that teacher face.  The resources incorporate general and computing specific evidence-based pedagogy. We incorporated spaced retrieval practice though knowledge organisers, diagnostic questions and quizzes, for instance. We also incorporate ideas from cognitive load theory through lots of worked examples.  To help with coding we use PRIMM and block to text based pedagogical approaches.  To support literacy we address vocabulary head on, encourage group work and class discussion and support pupils writing responses to long answer questions among many other strategies.

At Key Stage 3 we cover the English national curriculum. We incorporate a range of activities from unplugged (eg binary, Caesar encryption) through to physical computing (creating a robot from a Microbit). At GCSE we cover the main exam board latest specifications including AQA, OCR, Eduqas and Edexcel. At A level we cover the AQA and OCR specification.

We leverage the use of other platforms including www.diagnosticquestions.com  on we have written hundreds of questions and dozens of quizzes. We have recorded more than 200 short straight-to-the-point videos on YouTube, and made activities on Quizlet to support vocabulary and literacy.

These resources have been tried, tested and refined over many years on numerous groups of students. All resource are fully editable and we encourage teachers to use, share and adapt all the content.

This is an ongoing project and we are always looking for others to get involved and contribute resources.  If you are interested please do get in touch at hello@mangolearning.academy

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