Integration of an Informatics Teaching-Learning Laboratory into Pre-Service Informatics Teacher Education

In order to understand the digital world and the underlying concepts of digital devices and applications, one of the skills required is algorithmic thinking. Therefore, it is important that not only the students learn algorithmic thinking in school, but also future informatics teachers. To enable them to experience this as effectively as possible, factors such as TPACK competencies and self-efficacy are important. This poster presents a study design on how a teaching-learning lab (TLL) can be integrated into pre-service informatics teacher education. The goal is, on the one hand, to increase the future teachers TPACK competencies and self-efficacy, and, on the other hand, to develop two different didactic approaches that foster pupils' algorithmic thinking. Considering this, a Robotic workshop with a block-based programming language was developed integrating these didactic approaches, both of which are designed to promote pupils' algorithmic thinking. The students conducted these two workshops in our TLL and reflected on their didactic activities. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed how students' TPACK skills and self-efficacy develop over time and how two different didactic approaches differ in terms of promoting algorithmic thinking in pupils. In the next step further data will be collected, evaluated and analyzed to achieve more insights to this preliminary results.