Again the Münchner Merkur reported under the headline "Zum Staatsexamen im Fach Informatik"on the commencement of training of computer science teachers in the faculty. Following the instigation of the dean, Prof. Broy the training of high school teachers in the additional branch (Unterrichtsfach) Computer Science was started officially with the beginning of the school year 1995/96. Twenty participants of a two-year "Lehrer-Kompaktkurs" were the first students set out on the laborious path toward a state teacher examination in computer science.

The students were selected from a group of over 100 interested high school teachers, and they come together every Wednesday at the TUM for four hours of lectures in the morning and for relevant exercises over the whole afternoon. To compensate for the additional time this needs, their regular teaching load is The course is also run during school vacations, when computer science professors give special lectures for this unusually small group of students.
A first pilot course has been succeeded by one with 40 participants. In parallel, the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has organized its own Kompaktkurs for the high schools in northern Bavaria.

The background for all these activities is the insight of all institutions involved that the high school instruction in computer sciences in its present form has little future, since it is neglecting the needs of the public. However, an improvement in this education needs a sufficiently wide, adequately qualified personnel basis.

Therefore, beginning in the winter term 1995/96, the Fakultät für Informatik of TUM offered in addition to the Lehrer-Kompaktkurs for the first time a regular curriculum Erweiterungsfach Informatik, which was developed in close cooperation with the Bavarian Staatsministerium für Unterricht, Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst.

Peter.Hubwieser@informatik.tu-muenchen.de