Bill Robinson

Highly experienced Computer Science teacher, most recently Head of Computing at Gresham's School, Norfolk, for almost 9 years, delivering GCSE, A Level, and IB Computer Science (CS) specifications; I decided to leave the school at the end of the academic year to seek new challenges. All of my students have full access to which I wrote to provide a complete suite of online interactive tools and a Python IDE targeted at GCSE and A level specifications

• 2025 GCSE achieved CEM value-added score +0.92 (average raw residual +1.45)
• IB Diploma (last cohort taught personally) achieved CEM value-added score +1.9
• Proven track record supporting high-achieving students gain entry to competitive university CS courses
• Mentored machine learning, computer vision and robotics applications developed by 6th form students
• Specialist in programming and its pedagogy: developed Patch, an extensively modified version of MIT's Scratch, to better facilitate the KS2/KS3 blocks-text transition (presented paper at WIPSCE 2016, Germany,
• Strong programmer in several languages: currently Python, JavaScript, SQL, Processing, and previously Java, PHP, Smalltalk, Scratch, Arduino/C++
• Professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery