{"id":2320,"date":"2017-08-16T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2017-08-16T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:55:03","slug":"teaching-and-learning-material-for-npa-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/teaching-and-learning-material-for-npa-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching and learning material for NPA Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/support-material-for-npa-cyber-security\/\">recently mentioned<\/a> that we received Scottish Government funding to develop teaching and learning material for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/cybersecurity\/\">NPA Cyber Security<\/a> (at all three levels). Since then, we&#8217;ve formed a development team consisting of practising teachers and lecturers who will be responsible for developing the new material. The team consists of experienced classroom teachers (and a college lecturer), most of whom are currently delivering the qualification.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the project is to develop a complete curricular package to help teachers and lecturers deliver the award &#8212; and encourage more centres to offer it in the future. The first stage in the project is to ask practitioners what they want. To that end, we&#8217;ll be issuing a questionnaire to centres to ask exactly that &#8212; What do you want? How do you want it? And when?<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;when?&#8221; is already known in reality, since we&#8217;ve pledged to have the new material available to schools and colleges by next March (with a launch event in April). Before we do that, sometime later this year, we&#8217;ll be looking for pilot centres to trial the material.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for the invitation to complete the survey in the near future. In the meantime, <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@sqa.org.uk\">contact Emma<\/a> if you want to know more about this development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently mentioned that we received Scottish Government funding to develop teaching and learning material for NPA Cyber Security (at all three levels). Since then, we&#8217;ve formed a development team consisting of practising teachers and lecturers who will be responsible for developing the new material. The team consists of experienced classroom teachers (and a college lecturer), most of whom are currently delivering the qualification. The aim of the project is to develop a complete curricular package to help teachers and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}