10 January 2018

44 teachers joined the Belarusian Scratch community due to a special online course Scratch for Beginners.

The course was developed in the Hi-Tech Park for teachers and students majoring in pedagogy who have no experience in Scratch.

Statistics:

·  198 teachers registered for the course (from December 8, 2017 to January 8, 2018).

·   44 teachers passed all tests (22%), including:

·   95 people took test #2, 80 (84%) people passed it;

·   65 people took test #3, 65 (100%) people passed it;

·   62 people took test #4, 56 (90%) people passed it;

·   50 people took test #5, 48 (96%) people passed it;

·   47 people took the final test, 44 (94%) people passed it.

·   19 teachers scored 10 out of 10 for the final test.

·    8 teachers received the maximum achievable score– 31.

The participants of the course share their impressions below:

Alla: "The course has been very useful to me. I wanted to start working with Scratch long ago but did not have the necessary skills. Now I can do that. I would like to deepen my knowledge."

Olga: "I like the idea of an online course; it saves time immensely. I recommend the course to all teachers who want to master Scratch. I am grateful to the organizers!"

Natalia: "I have received structured knowledge backed up by practice. I managed to grasp a huge piece of information about Scratch."

The course will be open again on January 15, 2018.

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