A Pattern Language for Teaching Design Patterns

Pedagogical Patterns help in general with teaching. But the teaching of design patterns introduces a few special problems like e.g. ensuring that the purpose of patterns is understood and that patterns are applied in the appropriate and correct way. This pattern language for teaching design patterns addresses these problems and offers solutions for teachers and trainers to solve them. The author would like to have 4 patterns to be workshopped at the PLoP 2011 (the white ones in the language map). However, comments on all patterns are more than welcome, therefore all patterns are also included in this conference version of the paper.