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

2003年4月起，高中通识课程开设了新的学科“信息”。然而，许多负责“信息”的教师没有信息教育的经验。我们开发了一个教学手册和调查信息教育。研究结果总结在以下7个标题。(1)我们对负责“信息”课的教师进行了调查，并确定了教学手册的内容。(2)我们从日本信息教育的目标“信息的实际利用”、“对信息的科学理解”、“参与信息社会的态度”三个方面，开发了“信息”的学习内容。我们为每个视点设置了20个学习项目（总共60个项目）。(3)我们设定并描述了以下项目，学习目标，学习内容，教学方法，学习评价，参考文献和参考网址。特别是在教学方法上，对教材、注意事项和教学实例进行了阐述，以便教师在课前准备教案和教材。(4)我们提供给教师的教学手册，我们描述为一个软盘数据，并上传到Web服务器。(5)我们分析了学生在课堂上使用的“信息”教材的内容，并制作了一个表格，列出了我们开发的教学手册与各种教材的对应关系。(6)通过对初中信息教育的实际情况进行调查，了解即将进入高中学习“信息”的学生对计算机的知识和熟悉程度。(7)一位高中老师试图用我们的教学手册教一部分“信息”。通过预测试，我们的教学手册对负责“信息”的教师有一定的参考价值。

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".