Cut out all the excess verbiage: be ruthless!
Teachers tend to be an erudite lot, with the ability to wax lyrical at the drop of a hat. But there's a good reason that teachers and leaders of computing in particular should develop the habit of being concise.
Walk the talk
The best programs are efficient. Extraneous code may add a few microseconds on to the running time, so programmers lean towards, er, lean programs. It seems to me that that is a useful habit to carry over into everyday school life, whether in the form of instructions or please for extra cash. Writing lean prose is a way of demonstrating that you can practice what you preach, even in a different context.
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cross-posted at www.ictineducation.org
Terry Freedman is an independent educational ICT consultant with over 35 years of experience in education. He publishes the ICT in Education website and the newsletter “Digital Education."
