Informatics for Teachers of All Subjects: A Balancing Act Between Conceptual Knowledge and Applications.

In this paper we argue for the need to incorporate basic informatics training for teachers of all subjects. We suggest that topics need to be carefully motivated by application scenarios all teachers can connect to. We present our ideas on which content should be taught in a course for teacher education students at a university, citing motivating examples. We then give insights into how the participants of our course judged the content to be relevant for them and to which extend they considered it to be part of general knowledge.