/cs4all-fellows

CS Curriculum Track 2017-18

Deliverables for Summer 2017

We will discuss these goals and progress towards during our mandatory check-ins.

Complete a prototype unit based on the projects you started last week

  • Ensure the unit meets the CS4ALL criteria for meaningful CS units
  • Ensure the unit is connected with a topic outside of the world of CS, another subject area, student interests, etc.

Develop a plan to test your unit during the school year

  • Testing with students - do you do the whole unit, part of it? when? how will you assess your success with curriculum design?
  • Testing with other teachers - if you imagine other teachers trying your unit out, what do you need to get them there? how you will assess their success?

Provide feedback on the elements of the CS4ALL Blueprint

Per Session Hours

Fellows will be paid per session for all meetings with each other and CS4ALL staff as well as independent work done to develop, test, and evaluate CS units. Fellows are eligible for up to 10 hours of per session per month during the length of the fellowship if they are progressing towards fellowship goals.

Kick-off workshop: Day 1

Soft-start

  • Send an intro to the email if you haven't yet
  • Read intro emails
  • Read about Erna Hoover - What do telephones have to do with CS?
  • Tell me about your expecations using the handout that says "As we scale CS4All across the City,..."

Understanding concepts and practices

For the next 30-45 minutes, please analyze this tutorial on React.js, Facebook's front-end rendering engine. Your goal is to find example of the Concepts + Practices in the tutorial and to record them in the Blueprint Scavenger Hunt spreadsheet

Please share your Blueprint Scavenger Hunt spreadsheet with apatel4@strongschools.nyc.

Context

Why are we here? What is CS4ALL? What is the Blueprint? Who are you? Who am I? What is our goal? What are our challenges?

Introduction to Meaningful Units

Design thinking to find opportunities to integrate CS

Create personas for:

Generate ideas for units using Design Thinking

Practical plans for the summer:

  • Meetings (in-person, digital, small group, one-on-one)?
  • What types of supports can I provide?

Independent work time:

Homework

Kick-off workshop: Day 2

Soft-start

  • Share a project idea and post it on the wall
  • Share an inspiring project
  • Share a technical learning goal for yourself today - what do you need to learn to write/implement a unit

Context

  • How might I prepare to teach CS?
  • PD leads workshop July 18-20 @ Downtown Conference Center, 9a-4p
  • Time to build a project and document
    • 3 hour long sprints
    • 10 minute demos at the beginning of each sprint
    • 10 minute feedback session at the end of each sprint

Build Sprints

Potential demo topics

  • Learning different programming languages
  • Integrated Development Environments
  • Version control with Github
  • Documentation with screen capture

Reflection

Add discussion questions

Homework

Kick-off workshop: Day 3

Soft-start

  • Sign for a demo slot with a post-it
  • Keep working on your project + unit

Triage

Where is everyone in terms of having something worthwhile to demo that they can actually get useful feedback on? Keep building...

Demos

Using the Teacher-Learner-Observer (TLO) training modality we will workshop our unit ideas, get useful feedback on content, pedagogical strategies, potential extensions, etc.

Next steps for Fellowship

Finalize meeting plan Finalize objectives - dates and deliverables, per session management

Resources

Videos - all less then 20 minutes (I think)

Short Reads

Inspiration