The Development of a Practical Manual for Senior High School Teachers of the New Subject, "Information"

高中普修课的新科目《信息》从2003年4月开始。然而，许多掌管信息的教师没有信息教育的经验。我们开发了一本教学手册，并对信息教育进行了调查。研究结果总结如下：(1)对“信息”课教师进行了调查，确定了教学手册的内容。(2)基于日本信息教育的目标--“信息的实际利用”、“对信息的科学理解”、“对信息社会的参与态度”三个观点，制定了“信息”的学习内容。我们为每个观点设置了20个学习项目(共60个项目)。(3)我们设置并描述了学习目标、学习内容、教学方法、学习评价、参考文献和参考URL。特别是在教学方法上，我们对教材进行了描述，注意事项和教学实例，以便教师在课前准备教案和教材。(4)我们向教师提供了我们所描述的软盘数据的教学手册，并将其上传到Web服务器。(5)分析了学生在课堂上使用的信息教材的内容，并制作了表格，列出了我们开发的教学手册与各种教材的对应关系。(6)调查了初中信息教育的实际情况，了解了即将进入高中学习《信息》的学生的知识和对计算机的熟悉程度。学校老师试图用我们的教学手册教授一部分“信息”。这一预试表明，我们的教学手册对于负责信息的教师是有用的。

The new subject, "Information" for a general course for senior high school starts from April 2003. However, many of the teachers that take charge of "information" have no experience in information education. We developed a teaching manual and investigated information education. The research results are summarized under the following 7 headings.(1) We took a survey of teachers that are in charge of the "information" lesson and decided the contents of the teaching manual.(2) We developed the learning contents of "information" based on 3 viewpoints -"the practical use of information", "the scientific understanding of information", "attitude toward the participation in information society" which are the objectives of Japanese information education. We set 20 learning items for each viewpoint (total 60 items).(3) We set and described the following items, learning goals, contents of study, teaching method, learning evaluation, references and reference URL. Especially for the teaching method, we described the teaching material, points of pay attention to and teaching examples in order that teachers can prepare teaching plans and teaching material before class.(4) We offered teachers the teaching manual we described as a floppy disk data and uploaded them to the Web server.(5) We analyzed contents of "information" textbooks that students use in the class and made a table giving the correspondences between teaching manual we developed and various textbooks.(6) We investigated actual conditions about the information education in junior high schools and discover the knowledge and familiarity with computer of students who will enter high school and learn "information".(7) A high school teacher tried to teach a part of "information" with our teaching manual. This pre-testing showed our teaching manual is useful for teachers who take charge of "information".